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.And hiswife turned round so that she might see the city of her father and hermother.Now the wrath of God came down on the city of Sodom [in the115 Kebra Nagastform of] a rain of fire from heaven, which burned up mountains, and hills,and stones, and earth.And lightnings, and forked lightnings, and peals ofthunder came down mingled with the crashing of the wrath of God., and acloud of fire which made the heat to emit smoke.And when all this uproarwas being heard the Angels said unto Lot, Turn not round after ye havegone forth from the city, turn not round that ye die not the death. Butwhen Ak.mâbâ, the wife of Lot, heard this, she turned round, and shebecame a pillar of salt, and she existeth to this day, to this very day.And asfor Lot, God made him to dwell in the mountains of Ararat.And heplanted a new vineyard, and his daughters made their father to drink wine,and they plotted a wicked plot, and they said, How (i.e.why) shall thepossession of our father be wasted (or, blotted out)? Our mother hath beendestroyed on the road, and there is no one to marry us here. And theymade their father drunk, and his elder daughter lay with him whilst hismind was clouded with wine, and Lot the righteous man did not knowwhen his daughter lay with him and when she rose up from him, for hismind was clouded with strong drink.And Noah was drunk and nakedbefore his wife and children, and he cursed his son who laughed at him;and [the act of lying with his daughter] was not reckoned against Lot assin, for he did it unknowingly.And his elder daughter conceived andbrought forth a child, and she called him Moab, which is, beinginterpreted, From my father on my knee. And he was the father of theMoabites and the Agarenes.Behold now, it is clear that the King of Moab isof the seed of Shem.79.Concerning the King of AmalekAnd it came to pass that when the older daughter of Lot had broughtforth her son, she said unto the younger daughter, Come now, let us makeour father drink wine, so that thou also mayest company with him that,peradventure, thou mayest get offspring. And again they prepared wine,and again they spoke to him the words of foolishness, and said unto him, Drink wine, O our father, so that thy heart may be comforted ; and he, thesimple man, drank and became drunk.And again, when he had drunk and116 Kebra Nagasthis mind was clouded with wine, the younger daughter came and lay withhim, and again he did not know of her lying with him, or of her rising upfrom him.And she also conceived and gave birth to a son, and she calledhis name Ammon, and he is the father of the Amalekites.Behold now, itis clear that the King of Amalek is of the seed of Shem.80.Concerning the King of the PhilistinesAnd behold, the seed of Samson reigned over the Philistines.AndSamson was of the seed of Dan, [one] of the twelve sons of Jacob, and hewas the son of a handmaiden of Jacob; and we will inform you how thisSamson came into being.The Angel of the Lord appeared to the mother ofSamson and said unto her, Keep thyself from all pollution, and companywith no man except thy husband, for he who shall be born of thee shall be aNazarite, holy to the Lord, and he shall be the deliverer of Israel from thehand of the Philistines. And then she brought forth Samson.And againthe Angel appeared unto her and said unto her, Thou shalt not let a razorgo upon his head, and he shall neither eat flesh nor [drink] wine, and heshall marry no strange woman but only a woman of his own kin and fromthe house of his father. And how God gave him strength ye have heard inthe Book of Judges.78 But he transgressed the commandment of God, andcame and married a daughter of the uncircumcised Philistines.Andbecause of this God was wroth, and He delivered him into the hands ofmen of the uncircumcised Philistines, and they blinded his eyes, and theymade him act the buffoon in the house of their king
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