Nimrod declared himself a god to be worshipped. He made a round tower of stone planted in the midst of the earth, and placed a throne of cedar on the stone, and upon this one of iron, another of copper, then of silver, then of gold, one on top of the other, the seventh of pearl and precious stones. When Abraham was born the magicians told him that his kingdom was coming to an end, and he intended to purchase the child from the father. Terah refused, hid the child in a cave. Abraham grew big and returned home. His father was selling idols and Abraham dissuaded the people from buying. He smashed them all, placed an axe in the hand of the biggest and told his father that because the others were disobedient, the big one had smashed them. Terah wondered at it.
2b. 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
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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.