The fifth chapter of Mishnah Avot (a/k/a Pirqei Avot) enumerates ten or more mythopoetic anomalies, all of which were created “on the eve of the Sabbath at twilight” — underscoring that the Creator was productive until the very first moment of the Shabbat, and that unlike for us, the hazy, liminal period between day and night is clearly defined for the Creator of Time. This litany of anomalies includes ten of biblical and parabiblical lore including “the Rainbow.” At first read, one might imagine this rainbow refers to the sign of the Noaḥide covenant (Genesis 9:12-17). But as with the way of reading Torah in the Jewish tradition, every verse is pregnant with meaning and intertextual references, and so one may be surprised to learn the anomalous Rainbow is not (or not only) that of Genesis after the Flood, but rather one identified with another miracle altogether — that of the Division of the Sea of Reeds. Such a reading is provided in Maimonides’ commentary on Pirqei Avot 5:4 where he provides the “received tradition” (qabalah) of the ten miracles at the Yam Suf according to midrash. In the parabiblical legend, the Sea of Reeds was split not into two but rather twelve distinct parts, one for each shevet, peripatetic tribe of the Israelites. The Rainbow, normally, seven colors, is here re-imagined analogous to these twelve submarine channels as possessing twelve distinct hues. Overall, the narrative parallel between the story of the Exile from Eden and the Survival of the Deluge is more strongly bridged with the Exodus from Egypt’s Goshen and the Passage through the Sea of Reeds.