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Abraham (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם, Modern Avraham Tiberian ʼAḇrāhām, Arabic: إبراهيم‎, Ibrāhīm, ʼAbrəham), born Abram (c. 1900 BC?), is the founding patriarch of the Israelites, Ishmaelites, Edomites, Midianites and kindred peoples, according to the three Abrahamic religions.

Also known as: Abraham in Islam, Abram

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And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

You are fifty years old and would worship a day[old statue!

Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt Thou indeed sweep away and not forgive the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me: He is my brother.

Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.

Oh, let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. Peradventure ten shall be found there?

May you be the firebrand of the furnace of the earth! Go, Azazel, into the untrodden parts of the earth. For your heritage is over those who are with you.

Now I, Abraham, built an altar in the land of Jershon, and made an offering unto the Lord, and prayed that the famine might be turned away from my father’s house, that they might not perish.

I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich.

[P]utrefy in the belly of the crafty worm Azazel, and be burned by the fire of Azazel's tongue.

And yet indeed, she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

The coins of Abraham had the figure of an old man and an old woman on the face of the coin, and those of a youth and a maiden on the obverse, signifying that after Abraham and Sarah had grown old their youth was renewed and they begat a son.

He said: Do you then understand what you worship -- You and your forefathers? -- Surely they are an enemy to me, except the Lord of the worlds,
Who created me, then He shows me the way,
And Who gives me to eat and to drink,
And when I am sick, He heals me,
And Who will cause me to die, then give me life,
And Who, I hope, will forgive me my mistakes on the day of Judgment.

O our Lord ! Accept (this service) from us, Verily, You are the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Abraham (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.