340 myths · Page 12 of 12
On his deathbed Jacob forced his body upright for Joseph the viceroy, begged the holy spirit for the blessing, and bound his bones to Machpelah.
Sold south with perfume he did not choose, Joseph throws himself on Rachel's grave. Gad later confesses he longed to kill the brother whose dreams he hated.
Before Jacob, a sneeze emptied a soul on the spot. He begged for time to charge his house, and sickness entered the world as a warning.
Feeling death draw near, Jacob binds Joseph by oath to carry him home to Canaan, and armed kings who came to raid his funeral leave their crowns on his coffin.
A day had become the shadow of a bird crossing a field. At a hundred forty-seven, Jacob asked Joseph for one thing. Do not bury me in Egypt.
With Jacob buried, his sons feared Joseph's mercy died with him, so they forged a dying father's plea for their lives.
Hauled from a dungeon at dawn, Joseph rides Pharaoh's second chariot while heralds shout his praise, and a strange new name spells out his whole life.
When Joseph was born the Holy Spirit fell on Jacob and showed him a flame to burn Esau, and that same fire drove his frightened house down to Egypt.
Rabbi Hanina shouted a lion off the road and then chased it down to take the insult back, and the same roar rose in Judah before Egypt.
A second voice finished the murder plot at Dothan, Judah carried the bloody tunic home, and Jacob called him a lion for twenty-two years.
