Emtelai

Role: mother · First appears: The Birth Of Abraham

Terah married Emtelai, daughter of Karnabo, and they had Abraham. Around this time she became pregnant; she gave birth to Abraham in a cave and abandoned him there, saying, “May the Lord be with thee, may He not fail thee nor forsake thee.” When she later went looking for him, Abraham revealed himself as the son she had left in the cave and told her to carry a message to Nimrod. She returned to the city and told Terah how she had found their son.

Terah later concealed Emtelai, Abraham, and the child’s nurse in a cave, where Abraham grew up. When Abraham was ten, Emtelai left the cave with him and the nurse, after the king and his servants had forgotten about him.

Relationship record

Life events

• Terah married Emtelai, the daughter of Karnabo.(The Birth Of Abraham)
  • With: Terah
  • “Terah married Emtelai, the daughter of Karnabo, and the offspring of their union was Abraham.”
• Terah espoused Abraham's mother, and she became pregnant.(The Birth Of Abraham)
  • With: Terah
  • “It was about this time that Terah espoused the mother of Abraham, and she was with child.”
• Emtelai gave birth to Abraham in a cave.(The Birth Of Abraham · 📍 a cave)
  • With: Abraham
  • “She entered this refuge, and on the next day she was seized with throes, and she gave birth to a son.”
• Emtelai abandoned the newborn Abraham in the cave.(The Birth Of Abraham · 📍 the cave)
  • With: Abraham
  • “Then she abandoned him in the cave, saying, ‘May the Lord be with thee, may He not fail thee nor forsake thee.’”
• Abraham revealed himself to his mother as the son she had abandoned in the cave.(The Babe Proclaims God · 📍 the edge of the valley)
  • With: Abraham
  • “Abraham: ‘I am the son whom thou hast come to seek in this valley!’”
• Abraham told his mother that the God of heaven and earth was also Nimrod's God.(The Babe Proclaims God · 📍 the edge of the valley)
  • With: Abraham
  • “Abraham: ‘Yes, mother, the God of the heavens and the God of the earth, He is also the God of Nimrod son of Canaan. Go, therefore, and carry this message unto Nimrod.’”
• Abraham's mother returned and told Terah how she had found their son.(The Babe Proclaims God · 📍 the city)
  • With: Terah
  • “The mother of Abraham returned to the city and told her husband Terah how she had found their son.”
• Terah concealed Abraham, his mother, and his nurse in a cave, where Abraham grew up.(The Star In The East · 📍 a cave)
  • With: Terah Abraham
  • “But Terah took his son Abraham, together with the child's mother and his nurse, and concealed them in a cave, and thither he carried provisions to them once a month, and the Lord was with Abraham in the cave, and he grew up, but the king and all his servants thought that Abraham was dead.”
• Abraham and his mother left the cave after the king and his servants had forgotten about him.(The Star In The East · 📍 the cave)
  • With: Abraham
  • “And when Abraham was ten years old, he and his mother and his nurse went out from the cave, for the king and his servants had forgotten the affair of Abraham.”

The Birth Of Abraham

• married with Terah “Terah married Emtelai, the daughter of Karnabo, and the offspring of their union was Abraham.”
• child: Abraham “Terah married Emtelai, the daughter of Karnabo, and the offspring of their union was Abraham.”
• parent: Karnabo “Terah married Emtelai, the daughter of Karnabo, and the offspring of their union was Abraham.”

The Babe Proclaims God

• child: Abraham “I had become pregnant from my husband Terah, and when the days of my delivery were fulfilled, I was in anxiety about my son in my womb, lest our king come, the son of Canaan, and slay him as he had slain the seventy thousand other men children. Scarcely had I reached the cave in this valley when the throes of travailing seized me, and I bore a son, whom I left behind in the cave, and I went home again.”
• married with Terah “I had become pregnant from my husband Terah, and when the days of my delivery were fulfilled, I was in anxiety about my son in my womb, lest our king come, the son of Canaan, and slay him as he had slain the seventy thousand other men children.”

Abraham's First Appearance In Public

• child: Abraham “Abraham met his parents in Babylon, and also he saw the angel Gabriel, who bade him proclaim the true faith to his father and his mother.”

The Star In The East

• child: Abraham “But Terah took his son Abraham, together with the child's mother and his nurse, and concealed them in a cave, and thither he carried provisions to them once a month, and the Lord was with Abraham in the cave, and he grew up, but the king and all his servants thought that Abraham was dead.”

The Iconoclast

• child: Abraham “Abraham went thence to his mother, and he spoke to her, saying:”

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Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume I. Made with Rho MD.