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The voice that called him out of the fire was his father's voice, and Amram had been dead for years. Moses answered it before he knew who was speaking.
He washed his parents' faces before he opened the shop. Joshua ben Levi had asked Elijah for a name. The name was a butcher.
Coins appeared under a doorpost for years. Then the poor man opened the door, and the giver ran toward a furnace still hot from the day's fire.
The king who speaks every language hears an ant warn her colony before his army crushes them and learns his glory looks like danger from the ground.
Jaddua would not break his oath to Darius. Alexander marched up from Gaza to punish him. He bowed to the Name cut in gold on the priest's mitre.
A hen and a rooster stood for a new marriage. Roman soldiers ate them. The defender who leapt a mile said God had forgotten the town.
Goliath fell on his face. A blow to the forehead should send a man backward. The boy who threw never claimed the arm.
He had never been taught to read a line of it, so he waited in the synagogue for the one sentence he was allowed to say, and then he roared it.
The men of Sodom had Lot's door in their hands. At dawn, inside the house, a guest said we are destroying this place.
Moses set the Tent of Meeting outside the camp, and the seraphim, sun, and stars lined up to visit. God told him to come back to his people.
Aaron had been prophesying in Egypt for eighty years when his younger brother was chosen. He felt no envy, and so he wore the breastplate over his heart.
A trap meant to burn Maimonides alive closes on his accuser, he turns into a lion to break cruel decrees, and Ibn Ezra comes hunting his equal.
He could name every herb from cedar to hyssop. Four roads left no mark. He set the tablet down and said he did not know.
The four living creatures strain forever under the Throne, crying blessed be the glory, and not one of them knows where that glory is.
Promised all of Canaan, Abraham still stood in Hebron as a stranger and paid for Sarah's tomb, then refused to bless Isaac lest jealousy crack the house.
Every creature in the garden drew into a ring around the first man and went down on its knees. He had been alive for less than a day.
Moses broke under Israel's complaints. God took spirit from him like light from a menorah lamp and set it on seventy elders.
At the burning bush Moses said no for seven days running. God told him there would be a bill for that, and it came due at the door of the Tabernacle.
After Sinai Moses stood outside the finished Tent, afraid of the cloud, until the Holy One called him alone by name.
They offered him a dynasty after Midian broke. He said no three times. A son of a Shechem concubine took by murder what the father would not touch.
For forty days Moses learned Torah and forgot it. God poured it into him as a gift, and Ha-Satan (the Accuser) hunted the treasure across earth, sea, and death.
After the quarrel over pasture, Abraham still names Lot brother, thins his army to Eliezer alone, and chases kings past Dan into Hobah.
Seraphim stopped at the outer dark. Moses went in like a fish through water. Inside, God taught him the words that would keep Israel alive.
His arms were heavy and the camp had pillows to spare. Amalek was still attacking, so Moses sat on a rock instead and kept his hands up.
Light steps down into coarse vessels and puts on dark garments so lowly things can be borne. The Soul seeks knowledge strong enough to hold the descent.
A Midianite priest nears the camp. Moses, Aaron, and seventy elders stream out. Before any miracle is told, two men ask after each other's peace.
Joshua crossed the Jordan, struck thirty-one kings, and won a loyalty Moses never heard. He still died without a son, while Saul fled a crown that chased him.
At the Jabbok Jacob called himself too small for kindness already given, and heaven loosened the merit that might have guarded Dinah when she went out.
While kings of east and west slept until the third hour, David rose at midnight to praise God, then asked his teacher if his judgments were pure.
The court in Tyre had a whip on the bench. Jacob of Kefar Nibburaya still thought a pedigree verse could open the Sabbath.
