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The Antiquities of the Jews

CHAPTER 11
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Now he and his daughters fled to a certain small place, encompassed with the fire, and settled in it: it is to this day called Zoar, for that is the word which the Hebrews use for a small thing.

There it was that he lived a miserable life, on account of his having no company, and his want of provisions.
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But his daughters, thinking that all mankind were destroyed, approached to their father, [24] though taking care not to be perceived.
This they did, that human kind might not utterly fail: and they bare sons; the son of the elder was named Moab, Which denotes one derived from his father; the younger bare Ammon, which name denotes one derived from a kinsman.

The former of whom was the father of the Moabites, which is even still a great nation; the latter was the father of the Ammonites; and both of them are inhabitants of Celesyria.

And such was the departure of Lot from among the Sodomites..


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