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1 The
two angels came
to Sodom at
evening. Lot sat
in the gate
of Sodom. Lot
saw them, and
rose up to
meet them. He
bowed himself with
his face to
the earth,
2 and
he said, “See now,
my lords, please
come into your
servant’s house,
stay all night,
wash your feet,
and you can
rise up early,
and go on
your way.”
They said, “No,
but we will
stay in the
street all night.”
3 He
urged them greatly,
and they came in
with him,
and entered into
his house. He
made them a
feast, and baked
unleavened bread,
and they ate.
4 But
before they lay
down, the men
of the city,
the men of
Sodom, surrounded
the house, both
young and old,
all the people
from every quarter.
5 They
called to Lot,
and said to
him, “Where are
the men who
came in to
you this night?
Bring them out
to us, that
we may have sex
with them.”
6 Lot
went out to
them through the
door, and shut
the door
after himself.
7 He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act
so wickedly.
8 See
now, I have
two virgin daughters.
Please let me
bring them out
to you, and
you may do
to them what
seems good to
you. Only don’t do
anything to these
men, because they
have come under
the shadow of
my roof.”
9 They said, “Stand
back!” Then
they said, “This one fellow
came in to
live as
a foreigner, and
he appoints himself a
judge. Now we
will deal worse
with you than with
them!” They
pressed hard on
the man Lot, and
came near to
break the door.
10 But the men
reached out their
hand, and brought
Lot into the
house to them,
and shut the
door.
11 They
struck the men
who were at
the door of
the house with
blindness, both small
and great, so
that they wearied
themselves to find
the door.
12 The
men said to
Lot, “Do you
have anybody else
here? Sons-in-law,
your sons, your
daughters, and
whomever you have
in the city,
bring them out
of the place:
13 for
we will destroy
this place,
because the outcry
against them has
grown so great
before the LORD
that the LORD
has sent us
to destroy it.”
14 Lot
went out, and
spoke to his
sons-in-law, who
were pledged to
marry his
daughters, and
said, “Get up!
Get out of
this place, for
the LORD will
destroy the city!”
But he seemed
to his sons-in-law
to be joking.
15 When
the morning came,
then the
angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get
up! Take your wife
and your two
daughters who are
here, lest you
be consumed in
the iniquity of
the city.”
16 But
he lingered; and
the men grabbed
his hand,
his wife’s hand,
and his two
daughters’ hands,
the LORD being
merciful to him;
and they took
him out, and
set him outside
of the city.
17 It
came to pass,
when they had
taken them out,
that he said, “Escape
for your life!
Don’t look behind
you, and don’t
stay anywhere in
the plain. Escape
to the mountains,
lest you be
consumed!”
18 Lot said
to them, “Oh, not
so, my lord.
19 See
now, your servant
has found favor
in your sight,
and you have
magnified your loving
kindness, which
you have shown
to me in
saving my life.
I can’t escape
to the mountain,
lest evil overtake
me, and I
die.
20 See
now, this city
is near to
flee to, and
it is a
little one. Oh
let me escape
there (isn’t it a
little one?), and
my soul will
live.”
21 He
said to him, “Behold, I have granted
your request
concerning this
thing also, that
I will not
overthrow the city
of which you
have spoken.
22 Hurry,
escape there, for
I can’t do
anything until you
get there.”
Therefore the name
of the city
was called
Zoar.
23 The
sun had risen
on the earth
when Lot came
to Zoar.
24 Then
the LORD rained
on Sodom and
on Gomorrah sulfur
and fire from the
LORD out of
the sky.
25 He
overthrew those
cities, all the
plain, all the
inhabitants of the
cities, and that
which grew on
the ground.
26 But Lot’s
wife looked back
from behind him,
and she became a
pillar of salt.
27 Abraham
went up early
in the morning
to the place
where he had
stood before the
LORD.
28 He
looked toward
Sodom and Gomorrah,
and toward all
the land of
the plain, and
saw that the
smoke of the
land went up
as the smoke
of a furnace.
29 When
God destroyed the
cities of the
plain, God
remembered Abraham, and
sent Lot out
of the middle
of the overthrow,
when he overthrew
the cities in
which Lot lived.
30 Lot
went up out
of Zoar, and
lived in the
mountain, and his
two daughters with
him; for he
was afraid to
live in Zoar.
He lived in
a cave with
his two daughters.
31 The
firstborn said to
the younger, “Our
father is old, and
there is not
a man in
the earth to come
in to us
in the way
of all the earth.
32 Come,
let’s make
our father drink
wine, and we
will lie with
him, that we
may preserve
our father’s family
line.”
33 They
made their father
drink wine that
night: and the
firstborn went in,
and lay with
her father. He didn’t
know when she
lay down, nor
when she arose.
34 It
came to pass
on the next
day, that the
firstborn said to
the younger, “Behold, I lay last
night with
my father. Let’s
make him drink
wine again tonight.
You go in,
and lie with
him, that we
may preserve
our father’s family
line.”
35 They
made their father
drink wine that
night also. The
younger went and
lay with him.
He didn’t know
when she lay
down, nor when
she got up.
36 Thus both
of Lot’s daughters
were with child
by their father.
37 The
firstborn bore a
son, and named
him Moab. He
is the father
of the Moabites
to this day.
38 The
younger also bore
a son, and
called his name Ben
Ammi. He is the
father of the
children of Ammon
to this day.