144 myths · Page 5 of 5
Egypt's sorcerers could copy blood and frogs but failed at lice. From that single admitted finger the rabbis traced the whole open hand of Israel's rescue.
Gabriel offered to pull Abraham from the furnace and God refused. Some rescues cannot be handed to a deputy, and the sea split because of what came before it.
Before any Israelite army reached Canaan, the news from the sea had already hollowed out its kings. A singing well then drew rivers around the desert camp.
Pharaoh opened Joseph's storehouses and told his cavalry to hang the gold on their horses, so nothing would distract them from the chase.
A flame from heaven lodged on Moses's altar and stayed four hundred years. In the same Tabernacle, gold was plated in one place no human eye would ever find it.
Stripped of everything by Esau's son, Jacob ran for his life, slept on a stone, and woke to find heaven had bent the whole land beneath him.
The quail were still in their mouths when the plague hit. The Mekhilta reads the wilderness to learn how God measures punishment against the size of a sin.
Ten plagues struck Egypt. Then the rabbis did the arithmetic on the sea and the number kept climbing, fifty, two hundred, two hundred and fifty.
When Moses died, heaven's bread fed Israel thirty-nine more days. His silver trumpets disappeared before Joshua could touch them.
For forty days the giant counted his taunt aloud, until the ground clamped his feet and heaven chained all 248 of his limbs so David could not miss.
Before Abraham, no man's hair ever turned white and no elder was honored for his years, so he prayed to be marked by age, and heaven answered.
Egypt's sealed slave system breaks as six hundred thousand men march out at once. Yitro hears and admits a greater God rules the world.
A baby cried on the seabed, so his mother reached into the standing water and pulled out an apple. Another woman found a pomegranate in the wall.
The five kings were still running when the light began to go. Joshua raised the scroll of Deuteronomy toward the sun and told it to be quiet.
A strong man carried his son into the river and the current took the boy. David watched four kingdoms rise with that same undertow.
Uncollected manna liquefied under the sun, ran to the Great Sea, fattened clean beasts, and returned to Israel as hunted meat.
Six hundred thousand people walked out of Egypt and not one of them said the word first. A Midianite priest arrived weeks later and said it.
Pilgrims poured into Jerusalem for the feast, and the city made room for beds, ovens, and fear until even a stranger found a roof without asking twice.
The last free foot hits dry sand as the last Egyptian boot enters the path. Heaven reaches for beetles and armies at once.
Trapped between walls of water, Egyptian soldiers argued whether the storm was weather or war. The sober named God too late to leave the seabed.
On the night God keeps watch, three friends walk into Nebuchadnezzar's fire while the same vigil that once split Egypt still holds the dark.
Trapped between Pharaoh and the water, Israel asked what they could do. Moses told them to be silent and exalt while the sea turned hunter.
After Moses struck the taskmaster, Pharaohs hunters closed in. God did not kill them. He emptied their mouths, ears, and eyes mid-chase.
Jeremiah's scribe poured his grief into a book, then slipped from the record, and a Babylonian prince later found his grave still deadly and still gold.
