1
On the night that I was born, there were great signs in the heavens, and when Nimrod's astrologers saw them, they were astonished and they spake evil of me to the king saying that surely I should overthrow his kingdom.
2
Wherefore, they counseled the king to purchase me of my father that they might slay me and thus frustrate the plans of God.
3
King Nimrod thereupon sent for my father Terah and spake unto him of the words of the astrologers and asked for his son in return for a great sum of gold and silver.
4
But the Spirit of the Lord wrought upon my father that he was loathe to give me up to the king.
5
On the night that I was born, a son was also born unto one of my father’s concubines and this child my father took unto the king and the king slew him in my stead, for thus had God ordained that I might grow up to serve him, the only wise and true God, and strive to establish his order in the earth all my days.