Abraham, the Carpenter in Jerusalem, hac. saved some money through hard work. His neighbour stole it and ran away, but dropped down dead on the road. A young man found him, dug his grave to bury him, when the sack of money fell out of his bosom. The young man picked it up and took it away as a reward for his pious deed. At home
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he hid it but in the night he heard a voice telling him not to touch it as the money belonged to someone else from whom it had been stolen. So he put it in the hollow of a tree. After a time the river overflowed, destroyed his home and carried this tree away. It was found by villagers and brought to Abraham the Carpenter as a good piece of wood. He bought it. The young man, now poor, came to Jerusalem and got work with Abraham. One day, sawing the trunk, he said, “This is just like the trunk in which I hid my sack of gold.” Abraham overheard him and asked him what had happened. He sawed it, found a sack of gold inside and Abraham offered him a share of it but the young man refused. Soon after Abraham married his daughter and sent the young man on a visit to his people, giving him a cake in which he had put ioo pieces of gold. At the gate of the town the young man was met by the governor who bought the cake for a few pieces of money and sent it as a wedding gift to Abraham’s daughter by whom he was invited. Abraham very surprised, put the cake away. When the young man returned Abraham showed him the cake, asked him what had happened and cut it open. The young man said, “You see, the money was not to be mine.” Abraham, however, married him to a younger daughter so that then he would be able to keep part of the property.