1When I, Abraham, heard words like this from my father, I laughed in my mind
2sighed in the grief and in the anger of my soul, saying in my heart:
3“How then can that which is made by him be a helper of my father?
4Or can he have subordinated body to his soul, his soul to a spirit, and the spirit to stupidity and ignorance?”.
5And I said in my heart, “It is only proper to endure evil that I may throw my mind to purity and I will expose my thoughts clearly to him.”
6I answered and said: “O father Terah, whichever of these you praisest as a God, you err in your thought.
7Behold the Gods of my brother Nahor4, which stand in the holy sanctuary, are more worthy of honour than yours.
8For behold Zucheus, the God of my brother Oron5, is more worthy of honour than thy God Merumath,
9because he is made of gold which is highly valued by people, and when he groweth old in years he will be remolded.
10Instead if your God Merumath is changed or broken, he will not be renewed, because he is a stone,
11the which is also the case with the God Joavon6 who stands with Zucheus over the other Gods.
12He is also more venerable than the God Barisat he is carved from wood and forged from silver.
13Because he too is a term of comparison, being valued by man according to external appearance.
14But Barisat, your God, when he was still not carved, was rooted in the earth7, being great and wonderful, with branches and blossom, praised.
15But you made him with an axe, and by your skill he was made a God.
16And behold his fatness is already withered and perished, he is fallen from the height to the earth, he come from greatness to smallness, and the appearance of his countenance vanished.
17And he Barisat himself is burnt up by fire and reduced to ashes and is no more.
18And thou say: “I will make another and tomorrow he will make my food for me”.
19But he hath perished to utter destruction.