for until the Torah, sin was in the world, but sin is not reckoned when there is no Torah.
But the men of Seḏ
And יהוה said, “Because the outcry against Seḏ
“Come, let us make our father drink wine and lie with him, so that we preserve the seed of our father.”
Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.
Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Seḏ
But what he did displeased יהוה, so He took his life too.
But Ě
And the earth was corrupt before Elohim, and the earth was filled with violence.
And יהוה smelled a soothing fragrance, and יהוה said in His heart, “Never again shall I curse the ground because of man, although the inclination of man’s heart is evil from his youth, and never again smite all living creatures, as I have done,
Therefore by works of Torah no flesh shall be declared right before Him, for by the Torah is the knowledge of sin.
for the Torah works out wrath, for where there is no Torah there is no transgression.
And the sting of death is the sin, and the power of the sin is the Torah.
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. The one not loving his brother stays in death.
Everyone doing sin also does lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.