And Terach was 70 years old [(that was the year 1948. And in Beit Yisrael 31, it is 1948, 69)]. He took a wife named Amatlai daughter of Karnabo, and she bore a son, and he called his name Abram, saying that the king elevated him over all the ministers [(Sefer HaYashar)]. He was born 390 years into the life of Shem [(Dorot 12)] and lived 175 years [(see 2122).

And see Kaf HaChaim whether in Nissan or Tishrei he was born, and likewise he died]. He was born in a city called Kutah [(Bechaye, Parshat Noach)].

Abraham [the secret that Adam HaRishon who sinned with idolatry was reincarnated in the drop of Terach who sinned with idolatry to atone for him, and Terach is from the root of Abraham's soul.

Therefore the matter was reincarnated to be rectified through this, and Terach and his wife were reincarnated in Job and his wife was Dinah daughter of Jacob (Chesed L'Avraham, Ein 5, Nahar 22). The spark of Abraham is from Michael, and of Isaac from Gabriel, and of Jacob from Uriel. And before it came to Jacob, it came to Chanoch. Know that the image of Jacob was in Chanoch, and Chanoch was in that of Adam HaRishon who received the soul that flew from Adam (Emek HaMelech 22, page 70).

Achiyah HaShiloni was a reincarnation of Abraham (Agan Sahar 387)].

Amatlai [daughter of Karnabo, that was her mother's name (Bava Batra 91, 2). She was healed as a woman, and her seven children were killed by the king. They said in the chapter of the Nazir that she said: "My sons, go and tell Abraham your father, you bound one, and I seven. You were a test, and I an actual deed." And she too went up on the roof and died.

Just as Terach was rectified in Job through suffering [(see year 1948)], she too was rectified through suffering. And when Nimrod threw Abraham into the fiery furnace, she came to extinguish the fire but made no impression, and here it made an impression for her rectification on 125 (2083)].

And it was on the night of Abraham's birth, all the servants of Terach came, and all the wise men of Nimrod and his magicians, and they ate and drank and rejoiced in Terach's house. When they left his house, they lifted their eyes heavenward to the stars and saw one very great star coming from the east, and it ran across the sky and swallowed four stars from the four directions of the heavens. They were amazed and said: "This can only mean that the child born to Terach will grow and be fruitful and multiply and inherit all the earth." In the morning they told the king and said: "If it please the king, give his father the price of this child and we shall kill him." Their words pleased him and he called Terach, etc., "Now give me the child and we shall kill him before his thoughts sprout upon us, and I shall give you his price - your house full of silver and gold." Terach answered: "Whatever my lord the king desires, your servant shall do.

But I shall tell you what happened to me yesterday: Ayon son of Morad came to me saying, give me the great good horse that the king gave you and I shall give you its price in silver and gold and fill your house with grain and fodder. But I answered you that the counsel that my lord the king advises, I shall do." The king was angry and considered him a fool and said: "You fool and ignoramus, or are you lacking sense to do this thing?

Are you lacking silver and gold?" etc. Terach answered the king: "Like this matter my lord the king spoke - give your son and we shall kill him and give his price in silver and gold. What shall I do with silver and gold after my son's death? Who will inherit me?

When I die the silver and gold will return to my lord the king." When the king heard Terach's words and the parable he brought before the king, the king was very angry and wrathful and his anger burned within him. Terach was afraid because the king was angry and said: "All that I have is the king's, and also my son is the king's without price, and his two older brothers." The king said: "No, I shall surely buy your youngest son for a price," etc.

Terach said: "Let my lord the king give me three days until I speak to my soul and my house the words of my lord the king," and he pressed them on this matter, etc. He gave him three days, and Terach came to his house and spoke to them the king's words and they feared greatly. On the third day the king sent to Terach: "Send me your son for a price, or else I shall destroy everything in your house and not leave anyone alive." Terach hurried because the king's word was urgent and took one child from his servants whom his maidservant bore him on the day Abraham was born, and brought him to the king and took his price.

The king took the child from Terach's hand and dashed his brains to the ground with his hand and killed him, for he thought it was Abraham. The matter was hidden from that day on and was forgotten from the king's heart, for this was from Hashem so as not to kill Abraham. Terach took Abraham his son secretly and his mother and his nursemaid and hid them in a cave and gave them sustenance month by month, and Hashem was with Abraham and he grew.

He was in the cave for ten years, and the king and his ministers thought that the king had killed Abraham [(Sefer HaYashar). And in the piyyut for the second day of Rosh Hashanah it says that Hashem hid him in the earth for 12 years without seeing the luminaries].