And it came to pass while I spake thus to my father Terah in the court of my house,
There cometh down the voice of a Mighty One from heaven in a fiery cloud-burst, saying and crying: “Abraham, Abraham!”
And I said: “Here am I.”
And He said: “Thou art seeking in the understanding of thine heart the God of Gods and the Creator;
I am He. Go out from thy father Terah, and get thee out from the house, that thou also be not slain in the sins of thy father’s house.”
And I went out.
And it came to pass when I went out, that before I succeeded in getting out in front of the door of the court, there came a sound of a great thunder and burnt him and his house, and everything whatsoever in his house, down to the ground, forty cubits.