Abraham Leaves Terah’s House

1 And while I was thinking this way about my father Terah in the courtyard of his house, the voice of a Mighty One came down from heaven in a fiery cloudburst, calling out: "Abraham, Abraham!" 2 And I said: "Here I am." 3 And He said: "You are searching in your heart for the God of Gods and the Creator; I am He: 4 Leave your father Terah, and leave the house, so that you too are not killed for the sins of your father's house."⁠a 5 And I went out. And as I went out, before I had managed to get past the courtyard door, 6 the sound of a [great] thunderclap came and burned him and his house, and everything in his house, down to the ground,⁠b forty cubits.