19:1 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
19:2 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
19:3 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate.
19:4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom–both young and old–surrounded the house.
19:5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”
19:6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
19:7 and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing.
19:8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
19:9 “Get out of our way,” they replied. And they said, “This fellow came here as an alien, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
19:10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door.
19:11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
19:12 The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here–sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
19:13 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
19:14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
19:15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
19:16 When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the LORD was merciful to them.
19:17 As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”
19:18 But Lot said to them, “No, my lords, please!
19:19 Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die.
19:20 Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it–it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”
19:21 He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of.
19:22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.)
19:23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.
19:24 Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah–from the LORD out of the heavens.
19:25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities–and also the vegetation in the land.
19:26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
19:27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
19:28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
19:29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
19:30 Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.
19:31 One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to lie with us, as is the custom all over the earth.
19:32 Let’s get our father to drink wine and then lie with him and preserve our family line through our father.”
19:33 That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and lay with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
19:34 The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I lay with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and lie with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.”
19:35 So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went and lay with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
19:36 So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.
19:37 The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab; he is the father of the Moabites of today.
19:38 The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites of today.
19:1 And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. And when Lot saw them, he rose up to meet them and bowed with his face to the ground.
19:2 And he said, Now, my lords, please turn aside here to your servant s house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you can rise up early and go on your way. But they said, No; we will spend the night in the square.
19:3 But he urged them strongly, and they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
19:4 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;
19:5 And they called to Lot and said to him, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them.
19:6 And Lot went out to them at the entrance and shut the door behind him.
19:7 And he said, Please, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.
19:8 I have here two daughters who have not known a man. Please, let me bring them out to you, and do to them as is fitting in your eyes; only do not do anything to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shelter of my roof.
19:9 But they said, Stand aside. Then they said, This one came here to sojourn, and already he is acting like a judge. Now we will treat you worse than we would have them. And they pressed hard against the man, against Lot, and came near in order to break down the door.
19:10 But the men stretched out their hand and brought Lot into the house to them and shut the door.
19:11 And they struck the men who were at the entrance of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the entrance.
19:12 And the men said to Lot, Whom else do you have here? A son-in-law or your sons and your daughters or anyone you have in the city ? bring them out of the place.
19:13 For we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become so great before Jehovah that Jehovah has sent us to destroy it.
19:14 And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, Rise up; go forth from this place, for Jehovah will destroy the city. But it seemed to his sons-in-law as though he were joking.
19:15 And when the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, Rise up; take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be destroyed in the iniquity of the city.
19:16 But he lingered; so the men seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the hand of his two daughters, Jehovah being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
19:17 And when they had brought them outside, He said, Escape for your life. Do not look behind you, neither stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the hills, lest you be destroyed.
19:18 And Lot said to them, May it not be so, Lord;
19:19 Even though Your servant has found favor in Your sight, and You have magnified Your lovingkindness, which You have showed to me in preserving my life; I cannot escape to the mountain, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.
19:20 Here, this city is nearby to flee to, and it is a little one. Please let me escape there ? is it not a little one? ? and I shall live.
19:21 And He said to him, I now grant you this request also, that I will not overthrow the city concerning which you have spoken.
19:22 Hurry, escape there; for I cannot do anything until you arrive there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
19:23 The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
19:24 Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven.
19:25 And He overthrew those cities and all the plain and all the inhabitants of the cities and what grew on the ground.
19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
19:27 And Abraham rose up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before Jehovah.
19:28 And he looked down upon Sodom and Gomorrah and upon all the land of the plain. And as he looked, there it was: the smoke of the land was going up like the smoke of a furnace.
19:29 And when God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out from the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities among which Lot dwelt.
19:30 Then Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the mountains, and his two daughters with him, for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar. And he and his two daughters dwelt in a cave.
19:31 And the firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.
19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine; and let us lie with him, that we may preserve alive seed from our father.
19:33 And they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
19:34 And the next day the firstborn said to the younger, I have now lain with my father last night. Let us make him drink wine tonight also; and you go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve alive seed from our father.
19:35 And they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger one arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
19:36 Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.
19:37 And the firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.
19:38 And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.