ssed over Euphrates, Genesis
10:21, though it must be confessed that, Genesis 14:13, where the
original says they told Abram the Hebrew, the Septuagint renders it the
passenger, [GREEK]: but this is spoken only of Abram himself, who had
then lately passed over Euphrates, and is another signification of the
Hebrew word, taken as an appellative, and not as a proper name.

[19] It is worth noting here, that God required no other sacrifices
under the law of Moses, than what were taken from these five kinds of
animals which he here required of Abram. Nor did the Jews feed upon any
other domestic animals than the three here named, as Reland observes on
Antiq. B. IV. ch. 4. sect. 4.

[20] As to this affliction of Abram's posterity for 400 years, see
Antiq. B. II. ch. 9. sect. 1.

[21] These sons-in-law to Lot, as they are called, Genesis 19:12-14,
might be so styled, because they were betrothed to Lot's daughters,
though not yet married to them. See the note on Antiq. B. XIV. ch. 13.
sect. 1.

[22] Of the War, B. IV. ch. 8. sect. 4.

[23] This pillar of salt was, we see here, standing in the days of
Josephus, and he had seen it. That it was standing then is also attested
by Clement of Rome, contemporary with Josephus; as also that it was so
in the next century, is attested by Irenaeus, with the addition of
an hypothesis, how it came to last so long, with all its members
entire.--Whether the account that some modern travelers give be true,
that it is still standing, I do not know. Its remote situation, at
the most southern point of the Sea of Sodom, in the wild and dangerous
deserts of Arabia, makes it exceeding difficult for inquisitive
travelers to examine the place; and for common reports of country
people, at a distance, they are not very satisfactory. In the mean time,
I have no opinion of Le Clerc's dissertation or hypothesis about this
question, which can only be determined by eye-witnesses. When Christian
princes, so called, lay aside their foolish and unchristian wars and
quarrels, and send a body of fit persons to travel over the east, and
bring us faithful accounts of all ancient monuments, and procure us
copies of all ancient records, at present lost among us, we may hope for
full satisfaction in such inquiries; but hardly before.

[24] I see no proper wicked intention in these daughters of Lot, when
in a case which appeared to them of unavoidable necessity, they procured
themselves to be with child by their