Genesis Revisited

An Original Mouse Tale

(Based on chapters 12 & 13 of the book of Genesis, Be'reshit in Hebrew).

Chapter One.

1: Now the Great Mouse said to Rookie Mouse, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the apartment that I will show you.

2: And I will make of you a great Mouse, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

3: I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse; and by you all the Mice of the earth shall bless themselves."

4: So Rookie Mouse went, as the Great Mouse had told him. Rookie Mouse was seventy-five weeks old when he departed from mouseland.

5: And Rookie Mouse took Lola his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions which they had gathered, and the persons that they had gotten in Mouseland; and they set forth to go to the land of M. Street. When they had come to the land of Brooklyn,

6: Rookie Mouse passed through the land to the place at Prospect Park, to the oak of Petting Zoo. At that time the Brooklynites were in the land.

7: Then the Mighty Mouse appeared to Rookie Mouse, and said, "To your descendants I will give this Park." So he built there the Brooklyn Public Library to the Great Mouse, who had appeared to him.

8: Thence he removed to the mountain on the east of Grand Army Plaza, and pitched his tent, with Plaza on the west and Prospect on the east; and there he built an altar to the Mighty Mouse and called on the name of the Great Mouse.

9: And Rookie Mouse journeyed on, still going toward M. Street.

10: Now there was a famine in the land. So Rookie Mouse went down to Subway Station to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

11: When he was about to enter Subway Station, he said to Lola his wife, "I know that you are a Mousette beautiful to behold;

12: and when the humans see you, they will say, `This is his wife'; then they will kill me, but they will let you live.

13: Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account."

14: When Rookie Mouse entered Subway Station the Humans saw that the Mousette was very dodgy.