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148 And Lot, when he said to his people, ‘ Do ye approach an abomination which no one in all the world ever anticipated you in ? verily, ye approach men with lust rather than women — nay, ye are a people who exceed.’ But his people's answer only was to say, ‘ Turn them out of your village, verily, they are a people who pretend to purity.’ But we saved him and his people, except his wife, who was of those who lingered ; and we rained down upon them a rain; — see then how was the end of the sinners !

And unto Midian did we send their brother