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# The firstborn ... the younger
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Here "firstborn" and "younger" are nominal adjectives that refer to Lot's two daughters according to their birth order. AT: "Lot's first daughter ... Lot's last daughter" or "The older daughter ... the younger daughter" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-nominaladj]])
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# according to the way of all the world
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Here "the world" stands for the people. AT: "as people everywhere do" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# drink wine
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It can be made explicit that their goal was to get him drunk. AT: "drink wine until he gets drunk" or "get drunk with wine" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# so that we may extend our father's line
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This speaks about giving Lot descendants as if his family were a line that they are making longer. AT: "so that we can bear children who will be our father's descendants" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# he did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose
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"he did not know anything about it" or "he did not know that she had slept with him"