Section 13
And Tara (Terah) begot a son and called him “ Avraham ” (or, Abram). And when Avraham was twelve years old his father Terah sent him to sell idols. And Avraham said, “ These are not gods that can make deliverance; and he took away the idols to sell even as his father had commanded him. And he said to those to whom he would sell them, “ Do you wish to buy gods that cannot make deliverance, [things] made of wood, and stone, and iron, and brass, which the hand of an artificer has made? And they refused to buy the idols from Avraham because he himself had defamed the images of his father. And as he was returning he stepped aside from the road, and he set the images down, and looked at them, and said to them, “ I wonder now if you are able to do what I ask you at this moment, and whether you are able to give me bread to eat or water to drink? ” And none of them answered him, for they were pieces of stone and wood; and he abused them and heaped revilings upon them, and they spoke never a word. And he buffeted the face of one, and kicked another with his feet, and a third he knocked over and broke to pieces with stones, and he said to them, “ If you are unable to deliver yourselves from him that buffeteth you, and you cannot requite with injury him that injureth you, how can you be called gods ’? Those who worship you do so in vain, and as for myself I utterly despise you, and you shall not be my gods.” Then he turned his face to the East, and he stretched out his hands and said, “ Be you my Elohim, O Yahuah, Creator of the heavens and the earth, Creator of the sun and the moon, Creator of the sea and the dry land, Maker of the majesty of the heavens and the earth, and of that which is visible and that which is invisible; O Maker of the universe, be you my Elohim. I place my trust in you, and from this day forth I will place my trust in no other save Thyself.” And then there appeared to him a chariot of fire which blazed, and Avraham was afraid and fell on his face on the ground; and [Elohim] said to him, “ Fear you not, stand upright.” And He removed fear from him.