1,019 myths · Page 23 of 34
God tells Moses that Aaron will be gathered, and the high priest climbs the mountain to strip his garments and hand them to his son.
In the Sinai wilderness God tells Moses to lift Israels heads in a census, counting a people like a shepherd after the wolf.
Moses rushes Midian's war knowing death waits after, while Joshua drags thirty-one kings across many years and loses a decade of life.
Two hundred fifty men want the altar by nightfall. Moses buys them until morning, hoping sleep will unmake a rebellion.
Moses lifts the oil and Aaron shakes, afraid the holy liquid will count him as stolen flesh if he is not worthy.
After Adam's bite the Presence leaves floor by floor. Abraham, Isaac, and Moses pull it back until the Tabernacle stands.
Sun and moon climb to Zebul and refuse to shine until God judges Korach, while smoke from the chasm still answers travelers.
One man had a wedding arranged with his mother's sister. Moses cancelled it in public, and that night the man sat in his doorway and cried.
Korah came at Moses through the family gate. When the ground finally tilted it took his tents, his flocks, and a needle he had lent out.
Shoulders touched, babies fussed, elders leaned on staffs. A woman there understood she would be tested at the loom and the oven, not only at the altar.
Hatred makes a king his own stable hand, six hundred chariots rise from Egyptians who once feared hail, and at the sea Israel splits into four panicked plans.
God cut the covenant with Abraham one spring night. On that same date angels told him Sarah would bear Isaac, and later Israel walked out of Egypt.
At Sinai Moses fears Israel will be sold into exile, so God opens with a servant freed in the seventh year, six kingdoms of bondage already counted.
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.
On Carmel Elijah rebuilds a broken altar with twelve stones, one for each tribe. Fire falls, idolatry burns, and a prophet matches Moses step for step.
The king who once sneered at the Lord hands over flocks and gold, then asks the people he whipped to bless him before they go.
Brothers meet in the wilderness. Aaron asks why Moses is bringing a wife and sons into Pharaoh's fire, and the family turns around.
Joshua cuts Amalek's ranks below while Moses' arms fail on the hill, and Aaron and Hur hold them skyward until the enemy breaks at dusk.
For six days God walks Moses through silver and gardens. On the seventh Moses still pulls his hand back, and a door closes.
For forty years each man dug his own grave on the Ninth of Av. In the last year every grave gave its sleeper back until the fifteenth.
Three days for Israel, one furious day for Pharaoh. At the sea the people take up the fathers' craft, and the water remembers Egypt's plan.
Chariots at their backs, the people turn on Moses. Death in the open desert, they cry, is worse than bondage with a proper burial.
Aaron fills a plain clay jar with an omer of manna and sets it by the ark. Centuries later Jeremiah lifts the same jar to feed a doubting people.
The people beg to gather just this morning, then just this evening. Moses refuses, and heaven asks how long they will keep refusing rest.
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.
Heaven's first utterance shakes seas and mountains. Israel's dead stand up, the living fall twelve mil back, and angels drag Moses into the cloud.
Solomon read the death dates off a work crew Pharaoh sent him. Then he opened the law of the red heifer and could not get anywhere with it.
An angel blocks the earth-born stranger. A homesick star tells its exile. Moses grips the throne, walks the commandments, and wins Torah for needy bodies.
Fire from God had already killed Nadab and Abihu. Now Moses handed their father the same fire pan and told him to run into the plague.
Two hundred fifty men came forward with censers. Moses reminded them that Nadab and Abihu had died holding pans like those. Korah put fire in his pan anyway.
