1And it came to pass when I heard the voice of Him who spoke such words to me,
2and I looked here and there, I found no breath of man5.
3So my spirit was frightened, and my soul seemed as departed from me,
4for I fell down as a stone, as a dead man upon the earth, and had no more strength to stand.6
5And while I was thus lying with my face towards the earth, I heard the voice of the Holy One speaking,
6“Go Jaoel7, and by means of my ineffable Name raise up yonder man and strengthen him, so that he recovers from his trembling.”
7And the angel whom He had sent came to me in the likeness of a man and grasped me by my right hand and set me up upon my feet and said to me,
8“Stand up Abraham, 0 friend of GOD who loves you, let not the trembling of man seize you.
9For lo! I have been sent to you to strengthen you and bless you in the name of God,
10the Creator of heavenly and earthly things who loves you. Be fearless and hasten to Him.
11I am called Jaoel by Him who moves those who exist with me on the seventh expanse over the heavens8,
12a power in virtue of the ineffable Name that is dwelling in me.
13I am the one who has been given to repress, according to His commandment,
14restrain the threats of living beings against the cherubims9.
15To teach those who carry Him, the song of the seventh hour of the night10 of man.
16I am ordered to restrain the Leviathan, for every single attack and menace of every single reptile are subject unto me.11
17I am he who has been commissioned to loosen Hades, and destroy him who stares at the dead.
18I am the one who was commissioned to set on fire thy father’s house together with him, because he displayed reverence for dead .
19I have been sent to bless you now, and the land which the Eternal One, whom you have invoked, has prepared for you
20and for your sake I have wended my way upon earth.
21Stand up Abraham! Go without fear, be right glad and rejoice, for I am with you. For a age-lasting honour has been prepared for you by the Eternal One.
22Go, fulfil the sacrifice commanded, for lo! I have been appointed to be with you 23, and with the generations that will spring from you and with me Michael blesses you for ever. Be of good cheer and go!”