Kebra Nagast

Concerning the King of Moab " The owner of these things hath seduced them stone me with him with stones." And unto them, me ; let when Judah saw his possessions he recognized [them], " Tamar is more righteous than I " and and he said, he left her and came to his house. And Tamar brought ; forth twins, two nations, Fares (Perez) and Zara. And Pars (Persia) was founded in the name of Fares, and he and his seed after him, and they were " Behold now, it is (Persians). Farasawiyan is of the seed of Shem. of Persia that the King proved ruled over called it " CONCERNING THE KING OF MOAB 78. And the King of Moab is of the seed of Shem, and we will inform you how this hath come to pass. When God made Abraham to depart from his father's country into the land of Karan (Harran), He made Lot to pass over into the land of Sodom and Gomorrah. And when God wished to blot out the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, He sent His Angels Michael and Gabriel to bring out Lot and to burn up the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and they destroyed them and brought out Lot with his children. And' his wife turned round so that she might see the city of her father and her mother. Now the wrath of God came down on the city of Sodom [in the form of] a rain of fire from heaven, which burned up mountains, and hills, and stones, and earth. And lightnings, and forked lightnings, and peals of thunder came down mingled with the crashing of the wrath of God, and a cloud of fire which made the heat to emit ; smoke. And when all this uproar was being heard " the Angels said unto Lot, Turn not round after ye have gone forth from the city, turn not round that ye die not the death." But when 'Akmaba, the wife of Lot, heard this, she turned round, and she became a pillar of salt, and she existeth to this day, to this very as for Lot, made him to dwell in the day. And mountains of Ararat. God And he planted a new vineyard, I3S