But refuse profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.
These myths were largely fictitious narratives based very remotely on the genealogies of God’s word. They were finally entered into the Talmud in the section called the Haggadah. Hendriksen, in his commentary on chapter one, suggests several modern day examples of such fables. Noteworthy among them are fictional and unscriptural portrayals on film of various Bible stories (59-60). Even to consider such is to glamorize them beyond their worth.