1,019 myths · Page 33 of 34
God asked Moses if Bezalel could build the Mishkan, then sent him to ask Israel. Before it rose, the camp was counted as treasure under heavy charge.
Barred from the soil, Moses sees tribe shares, kings, ruin, and judgment. He begs to meet the Messiah and learns the Name so the Shekinah will not burn him.
Jethro brought Zipporah, whom Moses had divorced, and her two sons to a camp the cloud had sealed. He tied his letter to an arrow and shot it inside.
At the bush Moses said his tongue was heavy and asked God to send someone else. The priesthood was meant for him. It went to Aaron instead.
Under Pharaoh, Jochebed vanished from hunters. In the wilderness, Moses stood in a court that never ended and finally said he could not lead alone.
An Arabian king trusted a portrait and physiognomists. Moses said every ugly trait they read was his by nature, then showed what will had rewritten.
Moses, who once walked the brick yards urging Israel not to break, draws a circle and refuses to step out until God shortens Miriam's shame.
Moses begged to enter the land. God told him the desert dead needed their captain for the resurrection, so Kadesh became the public reason he stayed outside.
Angels leaned over the Nile and shouted that the baby scheduled to sing at the sea was about to drown in it. God refused to hurry. The basket did not tip.
Without the elders' early trust, Israel would not have followed Moses. God rewarded them with the honor of leading the people to the Passover sacrifice.
On the edge of Nebo, Moses scolded Israel harder than Sinai had. The mountain once called sword watched him finish the work.
For years Moses walked the middle road to the Tent. One day he stepped right and set Aaron where every eye would see.
When death closed on Moses, he begged the mountain and the waters to speak for him. Both remembered God's fire and said no.
Aaron watched twelve princes offer gifts while his tribe stood empty-handed. God answered with a flame, and Moses later asked for that same light back.
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.
He had talked heaven out of destroying Israel twice. On the riverbank he used the softest word in the language, and the answer was still no.
Pharaoh marked the hours between each blow to Egypt, waiting the plagues out, until hail smashed his flax and left the late wheat standing green.
After the sea fell, Israel saw Egyptian corpses on the water and tried to turn back home, until Moses raised his staff and forced the march toward the mountain.
Young Moses wins a weekly rest for the brickmakers. Years later the Israelite foremen absorb Pharaoh's lashes and meet him with curses at the gate.
Moses names Nissan for redemption. Israel points at Egypt's idol peaks. God leaps the mountains of their sin the way dew lifts a lily from Esau's shadow.
Under the tree Abraham served three guests whose food vanished course by course, then Ammon locked the desert against travelers who already had manna.
Moses built the Mishkan beam by beam as the Lord commanded, then stood outside while the Name filled the house. Heaven refused to leave him at the door.
The boy would not step past the gate. Robbers waited in the hills, pirates on the water. His father sealed an amulet in a stick and pressed it into his palm.
Moses carried the promise into brick-dust streets. A woman turned a small clay figure in her palm until it warmed. A man kept his eyes on the floor.
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.
Rabbi Nehorai swore almost none left Egypt. Under three days of black, survivors buried the unwilling, then stepped into a desert whose shadow could kill.
At Sinai the camp demanded to hear and see the King, not a messenger. God said yes. The voice then drove them the full length of their camp.
The census came up short. Israel counted 22,273 firstborn sons and only 22,000 Levites, so 273 fathers paid five shekels each and watched the silver go.
At a roadside inn, Zipporah cut her son with a stone and dropped the flesh at an angel's feet so Moses could live to reach Egypt.
