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Apocalypse of Abraham 1

Related ancient text — scholarly reference

Extra-canonical text — not LDS scripture and not in the KJV Apocrypha. Provided as scholarly reference for parallel literature of the Second Temple period and the early Christian era. Read with discernment; the Apostle Jude quotes 1 Enoch and Paul knew this material, but inclusion here is for study, not doctrine.

1On the day I was guarding the Gods of my father 1 Terah and the Gods of my brother Nahor, while I was testing which God is in truth mighthy,

2I , Abraham, at the time when my lot came, when I was completing the services2, of my father Terah’s sacrifice to his Gods of wood, of stone, of gold,

3of silver, of copper, and of iron, having entered their temple for the service, I found a God named Marumath 3 carved out of stone, fallen forward at the feet of the God iron Nahon.

4And it came to pass, that when I saw it my heart was perplexed, and I considered in my mind that I, Abraham, could not put it back in its place by myself

5because it was heavy, of a large stone. So I went and told my father,

6and he entered with me, and when we both lifted it to put it in its place, its head fell off, while I was holding it by its head.

7And it came to pass, when my father saw that the head of his God Marumath had fallen, he said to me: “Abraham!

8And I said: “Here I am!”, and he said to me: “Bring me the axe and chisels from the house. “And I brought them to him

9from the house, so he cut another Marumath from another stone, without a head, and he smashed the head that had fallen off Marumath and the rest of Marumath.4

Public-domain text (R.H. Charles 1913 and equivalents). These works are not canonical, but several were widely read in antiquity and one (1 Enoch) is quoted by name in Jude 1:14–15. Useful for understanding the doctrinal landscape from which the apostles and earliest saints taught.