Aggada -- Translations into English; Bible. Old Testament -- Legends; Jewish legends; Midrash -- Translations into English
can cause horns to sprout forth on his head like the horns of a stag or
a ram, then shall I observe the tie of brotherhood with thee."
Then spoke Judah to his father Jacob, saying: "How long wilt thou stand
yet wasting words of peace and friendship upon him? And he attacks us
unawares, like an enemy, with his mail-clad warriors, seeking to slay
us." Hearing these words, Jacob grasped his bow and killed Adoram the
Edomite, and a second time he bent his bow, and the arrow struck Esau
upon the right thigh. The wound was mortal, and his sons lifted Esau up
and put him upon his ass, and he came to Adora, and there he died.
Judah made a sally to the south of the citadel, and with him were
Naphtali and Gad, aided by fifty of Jacob's servants; to the east Levi
and Dan went forth with fifty servants; Reuben, Issachar, and Zebulon
with fifty servants, to the north; and Simon, Benjamin, and Enoch, the
last the son of Reuben, with fifty servants, to the west. Judah was
exceedingly brave in battle. Together with Naphtali and Gad he pressed
forward into the ranks of the enemy, and captured one of their iron
towers. On their bucklers they caught the sharp missiles hurled against
them in such numbers that the light of the sun was darkened by reason
of the rocks and darts and stones. Judah was the first to break the
ranks of the enemy, of whom he killed six valiant men, and he was
accompanied on the right by Naphtali and by Gad on the left. They also
hewed down two soldiers each, while their troop of servants killed one
man each. Nevertheless they did not succeed in forcing the army away
from the south of the citadel, not even when all together, Judah and
his brethren, made an united attack upon the enemy, each of them
picking out a victim and slaying him. And they were still unsuccessful
in a third combined attack, though this time each killed two men.
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