Genesis 19:35 completes the pattern begun two nights earlier.

"And they made their father drink wine that night also, and he was drunk, and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he knew not in her lying down nor in her rising up."

The Targum's Aramaic is nearly identical to the verse two lines above it. The repetition is deliberate. The Torah — and its Aramaic translation — wants the reader to feel the grim mechanical rhythm of this cave, the way catastrophe settled into a pattern.

But there is one small linguistic shift the rabbis caught, and Targum Pseudo-Jonathan preserves it. In Genesis 19:33, describing the elder daughter's night, the Hebrew marks the word uv'qumah ("when she arose") with a dot over one letter — a scribal annotation signaling that something is being said and unsaid at once. The rabbis (Nazir 23a) read the dot as a hint that Lot was not, in fact, entirely unaware — at least not by the second night. By then, the tradition suggests, he should have noticed. He should have woken. He should have refused the wine. Instead, he drank again.

This is the Targum's quiet moral scalpel at work. Night one: Lot is drunk, and the daughters bear full responsibility. Night two: Lot has been warned by the evidence of his own body, and still he drinks. The second night is on him.

From this night will come Ben-Ammi, the father of the Ammonites. Like Moab before him, he will grow into a nation that shadows Israel's history for a thousand years.

The takeaway: the morning after the first mistake is the moment you decide whether it will become the first of many.