1
Thus was my life saved by my father Terah, and he took me with my mother, Amthelo, and my nurse Edna unto a cave hidden in the mountains some distance from the city of Ur where he secreted us and visited us each month at the New Moon.
2
For my father thus informed the king that he went each month on the New Moon to a spot sacred to his family to worship his family deity.
3
For in the kingdom of Nimrod each man worshiped gods of his own make, gods of wood and stone, each after the imagination of his own heart.
4
Thus did I dwell in the cave with my mother Amthelo and my nurse Edna and knew no other man save my father Terah and my elder brothers Haran and Nahor who accompanied my father on his visits.