—and this very figure is also found in the Torah still held by the People of the Scripture: it states the length of his stay among his people both before and after the Flood.

Likewise, He informed them of the story of the Friend, Abraham—what took place between him and his people, his being flung into the fire, his readiness to sacrifice his son, the coming of the angels to him in the form of guests, their giving him glad tidings of Isaac and Jacob, the angels’ subsequent visit to Lot, what befell Lot and his people, and God’s destruction of the towns of Lot’s folk.

He told them too of Israel and his sons: of Joseph, what happened to him in Egypt; of Moses and Pharaoh, how God spoke to Moses time after time; and of the signs granted to him—the staff, the radiant hand, the plague of lice, the frogs, the blood, the parting of the sea, the clouds that shaded the Children of Israel, His provision of manna and quails, the gushing of twelve springs from the rock to quench their thirst, their worship of the calf, and their killing of one another when God accepted their repentance; the episode of the cow; the mountain raised above them; the story of David and his slaying of Goliath; and the story of those who went out