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That Arab said to me: Come, I will show you the dead of the wilderness, i.e., the Jewish people who left Egypt and died in the wilderness. I went and saw them; and they had the appearance of one who is intoxicated and they were lying on their backs. And the knee of one of them was elevated, and he was so enormous that the Arab entered under his knee while riding a camel and with his spear upright, and he did not touch him. I cut one corner of the sky-blue garment that contains ritual fringes of one of them, and we were unable to walk. The Arab said to me: Perhaps you took something from them? Return it, as we know by tradition that one who takes something from them cannot walk. I then returned the corner of the garment, and then we were able to walk.

And Rabba bar bar Ḥana said: I have seen a certain frog [akrokta] that was as large as the fort [akra] of Hagronya. And how large is the fort of Hagronya? It is as large as sixty houses. A snake came and swallowed the frog. A raven came and swallowed the snake, and flew up and sat in a tree. Come and see how great is the strength of the tree, which could bear the weight of that raven. Rav Pappa bar Shmuel said: If I had not been there and seen this, I would not believe it.

אָמַר רַבָּה לְדִידִי חֲזֵי לִי אוּרְזִילָא בַּר יוֹמֵיהּ דַּהֲוָה כְּהַראָמַר רַבָּה לְדִידִי חֲזֵי לִי אוּרְזִילָא בַּר יוֹמֵיהּ דַּהֲוָה כְּהַר תָּבוֹר וְהַר תָּבוֹר כַּמָּה הָוֵי אַרְבַּע פַּרְסֵי וּמְשָׁאכָא דְצַוְּארֵיהּ תְּלָתָא פַּרְסֵי וּבֵי מַרְבַּעְתָּא דְרֵישֵׁיהּ פַּרְסָא וּפַלְגָא רְמָא כּוּפְתָּא וּסְכַר לֵיהּ לְיַרְדְּנָא Rabba said: I have seen a day-old antelope [urzila] that was as large as Mount Tabor. And how large is Mount Tabor? It is four parasangs. And the length of its neck was three parasangs, and the place where his head rests was a parasang and a half. It cast feces [kufta] and thereby dammed up the Jordan.

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