1 And Abraham said to Michael, “Tell me, man of God,
2 and show to me why you have come hither.”
3 And Michael said, “Your son Isaac will show you.”
4 And Abraham said to his son, “My beloved son, tell me what you have seen in your dream today, and wast frightened. Relate it to me.”
5 Isaac answered his father, “I saw in my dream the sun and the moon, and there was a crown upon my head,
6 and there came from heaven a man of great size, and shining as the light that is called the father of light.
7 He took the sun from my head, and yet left the rays behind with me.
8 And I wept and said, I beseech you, my Lord, take not away the glory of my head, and the light of my house, and all my glory.
9 And the sun and the moon and the stars lamented, saying, Take not away the glory of our power.
10 And that shining man answered and said to me, Weep not that I take the light of your house, for it is taken up from troubles into rest, from a low estate to a high one;
11 they lift him up from a narrow to a wide place; they raise him from darkness to light.
12 And I said to him, I beseech you, Lord, take also the rays with it.
13 He said to me, There are twelve hours of the day, and then I shall take all the rays.
14 As the shining man said this, I saw the sun of my house ascending into heaven, but that crown I saw no more,
15 and that sun was like you my father.”
16 And Michael said to Abraham, “Your son Isaac has spoken truth, for you shall go, and be taken up into the heavens,
17 but your body shall remain on earth, until seven thousand ages are fulfilled, for then all flesh shall arise.
18 Now therefore, Abraham, set your house in order, and your children, for you have heard fully what is decreed concerning you.”
19 Abraham answered and said to Michael, “I beseech you, Lord, if I shall depart from my body, I have desired to be taken up in my body that I may see the creatures that the Lord my God has created in heaven and on earth.”
20 Michael answered and said, “This is not for me to do, but I shall go and tell the Lord of this, and if I am commanded I shall show you all these things.”