And he left behind his little children, his offspring; and they grew up according as their father had instructed them, and they kept the order of their house, and they ruled over all that was theirs, and they did not oppress the poor and the orphan and the widow.
And they feared the Lord, and they gave their wealth in alms to the needy, and they showed compassion in all that their father had committed to their charge; and they comforted the widow and the orphan in their distress, and they became to them a father and a mother, and they delivered them from the hand of their oppressors, and they comforted them in all the trouble and sorrow that befell them.
And after him there came Tserutsaydan, king of the Chaldeans, and he destroyed all their cities and led away captive the children of Meqabis, and he laid waste their whole land.
And he plundered all their wealth, and them too he seized and carried away into their own land—the worshippers of idols, who walked not in the commandment and judgment of the Lord, but in all evil and harlotry and uncleanness and covetousness and blasphemy, and who did not remember their God.
And they ate all manner of carrion and blood and the flesh torn by beasts and what was strangled, and everything in which the Lord takes no delight; and they had no law from among all the commandments of righteousness that are written in the Torah.
And they did not acknowledge the Lord, that He was their Creator and their Savior, who brought them forth from their mother's womb and fed them with what was fitting.
And they had no law in justice—those who walked in defilement and oppression and harlotry and uncleanness, taking to wife their father's wife and their mother's sister, and doing every evil thing, and taking to wife their own sister and their kindred; and they had no law.
But these, the children of Meqabis, kept themselves in all that pertained to their abstinence, and they did not eat carrion or what was strangled, nor any of the uncleanness and sin of the children of the Chaldeans; for evil and many were the deeds—which cannot be written in this book—that the wicked and lawless and faithless children of the Arabaeans did, defiled and full of pollution and uncleanness and oppression.
And again they worshipped an idol whose name was Beel Pegor, and they worshipped it and trusted in it as in the Lord their Creator; though it was deaf and dumb, and there was none that could see or hear, for it was a graven thing, the work of men's hands, which a smith of gold and silver had cast—the work, the work of a mortal man, which had no understanding or breath.