account of his having no company, and his want of provisions.

5. 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.

CHAPTER 12.

Concerning Abimelech; And Concerning Ismael The Son Of Abraham;
And Concerning The Arabians, Who Were His Posterity.

1. Abraham now removed to Gerar of Palestine, leading Sarah along
with him, under the notion of his sister, using the like
dissimulation that he had used before, and this out of fear: for
he was afraid of Abimelech, the king of that country, who did
also himself fall in love with Sarah, and was disposed to corrupt
her; but he was restrained from satisfying his lust by a
dangerous distemper which befell him from God. Now when his
physicians despaired of curing him, he fell asleep, and saw a
dream, warning him not to abuse the stranger's wife; and when he
recovered, he told his friends that God had inflicted that
disease upon him, by way of punishment, for his injury to the
stranger; and in order to preserve the chastity of his wife, for