5 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
Fifty thousand men crossed the Jordan to fight for land they would never live on. When they went home and built an altar, Israel armed against them.
An overseer caught a smith's wrist before iron touched the Tabernacle. Gold could enter the sockets. Rome's metal stayed in the yard.
The iron was a leather needle, no longer than a finger. It slipped into a man's throat, and the man holding it ran for the nearest city of refuge.
The chisel rang once against an altar stone. The crew froze. Two rocks had felt iron, and the wall was already rising around them.
The forests had been standing for a few hours when iron came up out of the same ground. Every tree in the world started to shake at once.
