And about the third hour of the night Isaac dreamed a dream, and it frightened him, so that he leapt out of bed and ran hastily to the room where Abraham and Michael were sleeping, and beat upon the door and said, “Father, open to me quickly! let me kiss you once again before they take you away from me.”  Then Abraham opened the door, and Isaac ran in and hung upon his neck, weeping loudly.  And Sarah was awakened by the noise of the weeping, and came quickly to them; and she also wept and said, “What is the matter?  Has our brother who is come to us brought you evil tidings of Lot, your nephew?” But Michael said, “No, lady, it is not so; but, as I think, your son Isaac has dreamed a dream which has troubled him, so he came to us weeping, and we were moved at the sight of his tears, and wept with him.”

Now Sarah, when she heard the sound of the voice of Michael, became sure in her own mind that it was an angel of God who was speaking.  She beckoned therefore to Abraham to come to her at the door of the house, and took him aside and said to him, “Do you know who this man is?” and he said, “No.”  “Do you remember,” said she, “the three men who came to us once at the oak of Mamre; and how you killed a calf and prepared a feast for them; and how when the calf was eaten, it suddenly became whole again and sprang up and ran and suckled its mother?  I am sure that this is one of those three men.”  Abraham answered, “Sarah, you have hit the truth; praised be God for His wonders.  Now I tell you that last night when I was washing the feet of this man, I said to myself, ’Surely these are the feet that I washed long ago under the oak-tree?’ And furthermore, he shed tears, and they fell into the water and became these pearls.”  And he drew the pearls out of his bosom and showed them to her, and she bowed her head and praised God and said, “Be sure, Abraham, that he is come to reveal some matter to us, whether for evil or for good.”

Then Abraham left Sarah and went in and said to Isaac, “Come here, my child, and tell me what you saw, and what caused you to come to us in such haste?” And Isaac said, “It was this, father.  I saw in a dream this night the sun and the moon upon my head, and the rays of the sun were all about me and enlightened me, and I rejoiced in them; then I saw the heavens opening, and a shining man, brighter than seven suns, came down; and he approached me and took the sun from off my head and carried it up into heaven; and again after a little while, as I was sorrowing over it, he came and took the moon from me.  Then I was greatly distressed, and I besought him, saying, ’Nay, my lord, do not take all my glory from me; have pity upon me; if thou must needs take the sun, yet leave me the moon.’  But he said, ’Suffer them to be taken up to the King above, for He desires them to be with Him.’  So he took them away, saying, ’They are removed from toil unto rest, and from darkness unto light.’  But their glory he left upon me.  Then I awoke.”  And Isaac ceased speaking.