Abraham Questions Idolatry

1 As I continued along the road, I felt troubled, and my mind was distracted. And I said to myself: 2 ["What is this evil thing my father is doing? 3 Is he not actually the god of his gods, since they are made with his chisels and lathes, and his skill, 4 and should they not worship my father instead, since they are his work?⁠a Why is my father deluded about what he makes?] 5 Look, Merumath fell and could not get up in his own temple, and I could not move him by myself until my father came, and the two of us moved him; 6 and because we were too weak, his head fell off, and he (i.e. my father) put it on another stone of another god, which he had made without a head. 7 And the other five gods fell from the donkey and shattered, and could neither help themselves nor hurt the donkey, even though it had smashed them; and their broken pieces did not come back up from the river." 8 And I said to myself: "If this is so, how can Merumath, my father's god, whose head is from one stone and whose body is from another, rescue a man, or hear a man's prayer and reward him?"