1 Then Abraham got up and went into his house, and Death went along with him. Abraham went up to his room, and Death went up with him. Abraham lay down on his couch, and Death came and sat by his feet. Then Abraham said: Go away, go away from me, because I want to rest on my couch. 2 Death said: I will not go away until I take your spirit from you. Abraham said to him: By the immortal God I order you to tell me the truth. Are you death? Death said to him: I am Death. I am the destroyer of the world.⁠a 3 Abraham said: I beg you, since you are Death, tell me whether you come to everyone like this, in such loveliness and glory and beauty. Death said: No, my Lord Abraham. It is your righteous deeds, and the boundless sea of your hospitality, and the greatness of your love toward God that have become a crown on my head. I approach the righteous in beauty and great peace and gentleness, but I come to sinners in great decay and fierceness and the deepest bitterness, and with a fierce and merciless look. Abraham said: I beg you, listen to me, and show me your fierceness and all your decay and bitterness. 4 Death said: You cannot look at my fierceness, most righteous Abraham. Abraham said: Yes, I will be able to look at all your fierceness through the name of the living God, because the power of my God in heaven is with me. Then Death took off all his loveliness and beauty, and all his glory and the sunlike form he was clothed in, and he put on a tyrant's robe. He made his appearance dark, fiercer than every kind of wild animal and more unclean than all uncleanness. He showed Abraham seven fiery heads of serpents and fourteen faces: one of flaming fire and of great fierceness, a face of darkness, a deeply gloomy face of a viper, a face of a most terrifying cliff, a face fiercer than an asp, a face of a terrifying lion, and a face of a cerastes and a basilisk. 5 He also showed him a face of a fiery scimitar, and a face carrying a sword, and a face of lightning flashing terribly, and the sound of dreadful thunder. He also showed him another face of a fierce stormy sea, and a fierce rushing river, and a terrifying three-headed serpent, and a cup mixed with poisons. In short, he showed him great fierceness and unbearable bitterness, and every deadly disease, like the stench of Death. 6 From that great bitterness and fierceness about seven thousand male and female servants died, and the righteous Abraham sank into a deathly faintness, so that his spirit failed him.