6 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
Jacob rolled the stone off Haran's well alone, and the water rose to meet him. Twenty years later Laban found only a dry hole.
After Isaac blessed Jacob with stolen goatskins, Rebekah laid her hands on Jacob and spoke a second blessing. The holy spirit finished it for her.
Jacob held both boys against him and waited for the spirit that had never once failed him. Nothing came. Joseph took his sons out of the room.
Moses walked into the Tent of Meeting when he needed a word. Balaam stood on the road. God came out to him the way a king sends coins to a beggar at the step.
Gerar's king had taken Sarah, and every womb in his house shut. Abraham asked God to let them multiply instead. Abimelech's barren wife bore a child.
The room smelled of age and oil. Joseph steered his two boys under a dying man's hands, the same hands that once gripped a brother's heel.
