What is the tree that became flesh? (Moses's staff.) — Mythoi

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What is the tree that became flesh? (Moses's staff.)

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Riddles based on the Bible or legend. · view the constellation · filed as H823

Cited in the index

general Chauvin V 195 No. 114.

Within the index

Filed under Riddles based on the Bible or legend.

Filed beside it

Riddle: who first spun and when? (Eve.) Riddle: what were the clothes of Adam and Eve? (Their hair.) Riddle: who, having neither father nor mother, are dead? (Adam and Eve.) Riddle: who, having had father and mother, is not dead? (Elias.) Riddle: who, having had father and mother, is not dead like other mortals? (Lot's wife.) Riddle: who has had, here below, two names? (Jacob-Israel.) Riddle: what was the walking tomb with the living tenant? (Jonah and the whale.) Riddle: what is the land that has seen the sun only once? (The bottom of the Red Sea during the passage of the Israelites.) Riddle: what is that which has drunk water for its sustenance and eaten after its death? (Moses's staff, which became a serpent.) Riddle: the king is surrounded by his nobles; what is this like? (The idol Bel surrounded by the priests of the god.) Riddle: what did Christ do in his 30th year? Answer: entered into his thirty-first. (Cf. H865.) Riddle: what does the king of the world of the Devas do? Punishes the bad people What three not born of male and female ate and drank on earth? (Angels who visited Abraham.) Riddle: what house was full of dead? (Philistines in the building demolished by Samson.) What was not born, yet life was given to it? (The golden calf.)

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