1 When Sarah, being inside in her house, heard their weeping, she came out and said to Abraham, “Lord, why is it that you thus weep?”
2 Abraham answered, and said to her, “It is no evil. Go into your house, and do your own work, lest we be troublesome to the man.”
3 And Sarah went away, being about to prepare the supper.
4 And the sun came near to setting, and Michael went out of the house, and was taken up into the heavens to worship before God,
5 for at sunset all the angels worship God and Michael himself is the first of the angels.
6 And they all worshipped him, and went each to his own place,
7 but Michael spoke before the Lord and said, Lord, command me to be questioned before your holy glory!
8 And the Lord said to Michael, “Announce whatsoever you will!”
9 And the Archangel answered and said, “Lord, you sent me to Abraham to say to him, Depart from your body, and leave this world; the Lord calls you;
10 and I dare not, Lord, reveal myself to him, for he is your friend, and a righteous man, and one that receives strangers.
11 But I beseech you, Lord, command the remembrance of the death of Abraham to enter into his own heart, and bid not me tell it him,
12 for it is great abruptness to say, Leave the world, and especially to leave one's own body,
13 for you created him from the beginning to have pity on the souls of all men.”
14 Then the Lord said to Michael, “Arise and go to Abraham, and lodge with him,
15 and whatever you see him eat, eat also, and wherever he shall sleep, sleep there also.
16 For I will cast the thought of the death of Abraham into the heart of Isaac his son in a dream.”