Abraham, coming out of the cave, worshipped in turn sun, moon and then God. He carried the sacrifice of his father to the idols, who did not partake of it, so he burned the whole house. He was brought before Nimrod who had declared himself God. Abraham asked him to make the sun rise in the west and set in the east. Nimrod had a furnace heated and Abraham thrown into it; the magicians said
that the brother of Abraham, was an astrologer and a fire worshipper, therefore the fire did not injure Abraham. A spark of fire then burnt Haran. All the nations recognised the superiority of God by the miraculous escape of Abraham.