Apocalypse of Abraham

Apocalypse of Abraham 12

XII. And we went, the two of us together, forty days and nights, and I ate no bread, and drank no water, because my food was to see the angel who was with me, and his speech — that was my drink. And we came to the Mount of God, the glorious Horeb. And I said to the angel: " Singer of the Eternal One! Lo! I have no sacrifice with me, nor am I aware of a place of an altar on the mountain: how can I bring a sacrifice? " And he said to me: " Look round! " And I looked round, and lo! there were following us all the prescribed sacrificial (animals) — the young heifer, and the she-goat, and the ram, and the turtle-dove, and the pigeon. And the angel said to me: " Abraham! " I said: " Here am I." And he said to me: " All these slaughter, and divide the animals into halves, one against the other, but the birds do not sever; and (" but ") give to the men, whom I will shew thee, standing by thee, for these are the altar upon the Mountain, to offer a sacrifice to the Eternal; but the turtledove and the pigeon give to me, for I will ascend upon the wings of the bird, in order to shew thee in heaven, and on the earth, and in the sea, and in the abyss, and in the under-world, and in the Garden of Eden, and in its rivers and in the fulness of the whole world and its circle — thou shalt gaze in (them) all. "