7 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
Jacob flees east from Esau, sleeps on the bare ground, and finds the place where a ladder connects earth to heaven in his own dream.
A spring at a Levite gate ran cold enough to hurt the teeth. Women with wet cloth argued with a traveler whose child could not drink.
An axe head slipped and a man fell dead. The killer ran for a city of refuge while the goel hadam closed the road behind him.
Because I circumcised my son, the first one said. The next was going to the fire for reading Torah aloud. A third had eaten matzah.
The axe head left the handle. A man went down in the wood chips. The one who had been chopping already heard the avenger behind him.
Balaam and Jethro had sat in Pharaoh's council together. From a hill above Moab, Balaam said what he thought of the man who walked out.
An axe slipped and a neighbor died. The killer ran to refuge and counted years by the High Priest's breath until that death opened the gates.
