The legends of the Jews

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v. 1. Bible times and characters from the creation to Jacob

The creation of the world

The first things created

The alphabet

The first day

The second day

The third day

The fourth day

The fifth day

The sixth day

All things praise the Lord

Adam

Man and the world

The angels and the creation of man

The creation of Adam

The soul of man

The ideal man

The fall of Satan

Woman

Adam and Eve in Paradise

The fall of man

The punishment

Sabbath in Heaven

Adam's repentance

The Book of Raziel

The sickness of Adam

Eve's story of the fall

The death of Adam

The death of Eve

The ten generations

The birth of Cain

Fratricide

The punishment of Cain

The inhabitants of the seven earths

The descendants of Cain

The descendants of Adam and Lilith

Seth and his descendants

Enosh

The fall of the angels

Enoch, ruler and teacher

The ascension of Enoch

The translation of Enoch

Methuselah

Noah

The birth of Noah

The punishment of the fallen angels

The generation of the deluge

The Holy Book

The inmates of the ark

The flood

Noah leaves the ark

The curse of drunkenness

Noah's descendants spread abroad

The depravity of mankind

Nimrod

The Tower of Babel

Abraham

The wicked generations

The birth of Abraham

The babe proclaims God

Abraham's first appearance in public

The preacher of the true faith

In the fiery furnace

Abraham emigrates to Haran

The star in the East

The true believer

The iconoclast

Abraham in Canaan

His sojourn in Egypt

The first Pharaoh

The war of the kings

The covenant of the pieces

The birth of Ishmael

The visit of the angels

The cities of sin

Abraham pleads for the sinners

The destruction of the sinful cities

Among the Philistines

The birth of Isaac

Ishmael cast off

The two wives of Ishmael

The covenant with Abimelech

Satan accuses Abraham

The journey to Moriah

The Akedah

The death and burial of Sarah

Eliezer's mission

The wooing of Rebekah

The last years of Abraham

A herald of death

Abraham views earth and heaven

The patron of Hebron

Jacob

The birth of Esau and Jacob

The favorite of Abraham

The sale of the birthright

Isaac with the Philistines

Isaac blesses Jacob

Esau's true character revealed

Jacob leaves his father's house

Jacob pursued by Eliphaz and Esau

The day of miracles

Jacob with Laban

The marriage of Jacob

The birth of Jacob's children

Jacob flees before Laban

The covenant with Laban

Jacob and Esau prepare to meet

Jacob wrestles with the angel

The meeting between Esau and Jacob

The outrage at Shechem

A war frustrated

The war with the Ninevites

The war with the Amorites

Isaac blesses Levi and Judah

Joy and sorrow in the house of Jacob

Esau's campaign against Jacob

The descendants of Esau. v. 2. Bible times and characters from Joseph to the Exodus

Joseph

The favorite son

Joseph hated by his brethren

Joseph cast into the pit

The sale

Joseph's three masters

Joseph's coat brought to his father

Judah and his sons

The wives of the sons of Jacob

Joseph the slave of Potiphar

Joseph and Zuleika

Joseph resists temptation

Joseph in prison

Pharaoh's dreams

Joseph before Pharaoh

The ruler of Egypt

Joseph's brethren in Egypt

Joseph meets his brethren

The second journey to Egypt

Joseph and Benjamin

The thief caught

Judah pleads and threatens

Joseph makes himself known

Jacob receives the glad tidings

Jacob arrives in Egypt

Joseph's kindness and generosity

Jacob's last wish

The blessing of Ephraim and Manasseh

The blessing of the twelve tribes

The death of Jacob

The sons of Jacob at war with the sons of Esau

Zepho King of Kittim

The nations at war

Joseph's magnanimity

Asenath

The marriage of Joseph

Kind and unkind brethren

Treachery punished

The death and burial of Joseph

The sons of Jacob

Significant names

Reuben's testament

Simon's admonition against envy

The ascension of Levi

Judah warns against greed and unchastity

Issachar's singleness of heart

Zebulon exhorts unto compassion

Dan's confession

Naphtali's dreams of the division of the tribes

Gad's hatred

Asher's last words

Benjamin extols Joseph

Job

Job and the patriarchs

Job's wealth and benefactions

Satan and Job

Job's suffering

The four friends

Job restored

Moses in Egypt

The beginning of the Egyptian bondage

Pharaoh's cunning

The pious midwives

The three counsellors

The slaughter of the innocents

The parents of Moses

The birth of Moses

Moses rescued from the water

The infancy of Moses

Moses rescued by Gabriel

the youth of Moses

The flight

The King of Ethiopia

Jethro

Moses marries Zipporah

A bloody remedy

The faithful shepherd

The burning thorn-bush

The ascension of Moses

Moses visits Paradise and Hell

Moses declines the mission

Moses punished for his stubbornness

The return to Egypt

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh

The suffering increases

Measure for measure

The plagues brought through Aaron

The plagues brought through Moses

The first Passover

The smiting of the first-born

The redemption of Israel from Egyptian bondage

The Exodus. v. 3. Bible times and characters from the Exodus to the death of Moses

Moses in the wilderness

The long route

Pharaoh pursues the Hebrews

The sea divided

The passage through the Red Sea

The destruction of the Egyptians

The song at the sea

The awful desert

The heavenly food

The gathering of the manna

Miriam's well

Amalek's war against Israel

Amalek defeated

Jethro

Installation of elders

Jethro rewarded

The time is at hand

The Gentiles refuse the Torah

the contest of the mountains

The Torah offered to Israel

Israel prepares for the revelation

The revelation on Mount Sinai

The First Commandment

The other Commandments revealed on Sinai

The unity of the Ten Commandments

Moses choses as intermediator

Moses and the angels strive for the Torah

Moses receives the Torah

The golden calf

Moses blamed for Israel's sin

The punishment of the sinners

Moses intercedes for the people

The inscrutable ways of the Lord

The thirteen attributes of God

The Second Tables

The Census of the People

The erection of the Tabernacle commanded

The materials for the construction of the Tabernacle

Bezalel

The ark with the Cherubim

The table and the candlestick

The altar

The symbolic significance of the Tabernacle

The priestly robes

The stones in the breastplate

The completion of the Tabernacle

The setting up of the Tabernacle

The consecration of the priests

The day of the ten crowns

The interrupted joy

The fits of the princes

The revelations in the Tabernacle

The cleansing of the camp

The lighting of the candlestick

The twelve princes of the tribes

The Census of the Levites

The four divisions of the Levites

The Four Standards

The camp

The blasphemer and the Sabbath-breaker

The ungrateful multitude

The flesh-pots of Egypt

The appointment of the seventy elders

Eldad and Medad

The quails

Aaron and Miriam slander Moses

Miriam's punishment

The sending of the spies

Significant names

The spies in Palestine

The slanderous report

The night of tears

Ingratitude punished

The years of disfavor

The rebellion of Korah

Korah abuses Moses and the Torah

Moses pleads in vain with Korah

Korah and his horde punished

On and the three sons of Korah saved

Israel convinced of Aaron's priesthood

The waters of Meribah

Moses' anger causes his doom

Edom's unbrotherly attitude toward Israel

The three shepherds

Preparing Aaron for impending death

Aaron's death

the general mourning for Aaron

The false friends

The brazen serpent

At Arnon

Sihon, the King of the Amorites

The Giant Og

Moses' speech of admonition

Balak, King of Moab

Balaam, the heathen prophet

Balak's messengers to Balaam

Balaam accepts Balak's invitation

Balaam's ass

Balaam runs into his own destruction

Balaam with Balak

Balaam's sacrifices refused

Balaam extols Israel

Balaam's hopes disappointed

Curses turned into blessings

Balaam's wicked counsel

Phinehas, zealous for God

Twelve miracles

Phinehas rewarded

The daughters of Zelophehad

The appointment of Joshua

Moses' legacy to Joshua

Moses' last campaign

The complete annihilation of Midian

The gruesome end of Balaam

The victorious return from the war

Wealth that bringeth destruction

Moses' death irrevocably doomed

Moses' prayer for suspension of judgment

God tries to comfort Moses concerning his death

The intercessions for Moses

Moses serves Joshua

The last day of Moses' life

Moses beholds the future

Moses meets the Messiah in Heaven

The last hours of Moses

The blessing of Moses

Moses prays for death

Samael chastised by Moses

God kisses Moses' soul

The mourning for Moses

Samael's vain search

Moses excels all pious men. v. 4. Joshua

The servant of Moses

Entering the Promised Land

Conquest of the land

The sun obeys Joshua

War with the Armenians

Allotment of the land

The Judges

The first judge

Campaigns of Kenaz

Othniel

Boaz and Ruth

Deborah

Gideon

Jephthah

Samson

The crime of the Benjamites

Samuel and Saul

Elkanah and Hannah

The youth of Samuel

Eli and his sons

The activities of Samuel

The reign of Saul

The Court of Saul

David

David's birth and descent

Anointed King

Encounter with Goliath

Pursued by Saul

Wars

Ahithophel

Joab

David's piety and his sin

Absalom's rebellion

David's atonement

Visitations

The death of David

David in Paradise

The family of David

His tomb

Solomon

Solomon punishes Joab

The marriage of Solomon

His wisdom

The Queen of Sheba

Solomon master of the demons

The building of the temple

The throne of Solomon

The Hippodrome

Lessons in humility

Asmodeus

Solomon as beggar

The Court of Solomon

Judah and Israel

The division of the kingdom

Jeroboam

The two Abijahs

Asa

Jehoshaphat and Ahab

Jezebel

Joram of Israel

Elijah

Elijah before his translation

After his translation

Censor and avenger

Intercourse with the sages

God's justice vindicated

Elijah and the Angel of Death

Teacher of the Kabbalah

Forerunner of the Messiah

Elisha and Jonah

Elisha the Disciple of Elijah

The Shunammite

Gehazi

The flight of Jonah

Jonah in the whale

The repentance of Nineveh

The later kings of Judah

Joash

Three great prophets

The two kingdoms chastised

Hezekiah

Miracles wrought for Hezekiah

Manasseh

Josiah and his successors

The exile

Zedekiah

Jeremiah

Nebuchadnezzar

The capture of Jerusalem

The great lament

Jeremiah's journey to Babylon

Transportation of the captives

The sons of Moses

Ebed-melech

The temple vessels

Baruch

The tombs of Baruch and Ezekiel

Daniel

The three men in the furnace

Ezekiel revives the dead

Nebuchadnezzar a beast

Hiram

The false prophets

Daniel's piety

The return of the captivity

Belshazzar's feast

Daniel under the Persian kings

The grave of Daniel

Zerubbabel

Ezra

The men of the Great Assembly

Esther

The feast for the Grandees

The festivities in Shushan

Vashti's bouquet

The fate of Vashti

The follies of Ahasuerus

Mordecai

Esther's beauty and piety

The conspiracy

Haman the Jew-baiter

Mordecai's pride

Casting the lots

The denunciation of the Jews

The decree of annihilation

Satan indicts the Jews

The dream of Mordecai fulfilled

The prayer of Esther

Esther intercedes

The disturbed night

The fall of Haman

The edict of the king. v. 5. Notes to volumes I and II, from the creation to the Exodus

The creation of the world

Adam

The ten generations

Noah

Abraham

Jacob

Joseph

The sons of Jacob

Job

Moses in Egypt. v. 6. Notes to volumes III and IV, from Moses in the wilderness to Esther

Moses in the wilderness

Joshua

Judges

Samuel and Saul

David

Solomon

Judah and Israel

Elijah

Elisha and Jonah

The later kings

The exile

The return of the captivity

Esther. v. 7. Index