19IT WAS evening when the two angels came to Sodom. Lot was sitting at Sodom's [city] gate. Seeing them, Lot rose up to meet them and bowed to the ground.H935H8147H4397H5467H6153H3876H3427H8179H5467H3876H7200H6965H7125H7812H639H776 2And he said, My lords, turn aside, I beg of you, into your servant's house and spend the night and bathe your feet. Then you can arise early and go on your way. But they said, No, we will spend the night in the square.H559H113H5493H5650H1004H3885H7364H7272H7925H1980H1870H559H3885H7339H3885 3[Lot] entreated {and} urged them greatly until they yielded and [with him] entered his house. And he made them a dinner [with drinking] and had unleavened bread which he baked, and they ate.H6484H3966H5493H935H1004H6213H4960H644H4682H398 4But before they lay down, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, all the men from every quarter, surrounded the house.H7901H582H5892H582H5467H5437H1004H5437H2205H5288H5971H7097 5And they called to Lot and said, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know (be intimate with) them.H7121H3876H559H582H935H3915H3318H3045 6And Lot went out of the door to the men and shut the door after himH3876H3318H6607H5462H1817H310 7And said, I beg of you, my brothers, do not behave so wickedly.H559H251H7489 8Look now, I have two daughters who are virgins; let me, I beg of you, bring them out to you, and you can do as you please with them. But only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.H8147H1323H3045H376H3318H6213H2896H5869H411H582H6213H408H1697H935H6738H6982 9But they said, Stand back! And they said, This fellow came in to live here temporarily, and now he presumes to be [our] judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them. So they rushed at {and} pressed violently against Lot and came close to breaking down the door.H559H5066H1973H559H259H935H1481H8199H8199H7489H6484H3966H376H3876H5066H7665H1817 10But the men [the angels] reached out and pulled Lot into the house to them and shut the door after him.H582H7971H3027H935H3876H1004H5462H1817 11And they struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness [which dazzled them], from the youths to the old men, so that they wearied themselves [groping] to find the door.H5221H582H6607H1004H5575H6996H1419H3811H4672H6607 12And the [two] men asked Lot, Have you any others here--sons-in-law or your sons or your daughters? Whomever you have in the city, bring them out of this place,H582H559H3876H6311H4310H2860H1121H1323H834H5892H3318H4725 13For we will spoil {and} destroy [Sodom]; for the outcry {and} shriek against its people has grown great before the Lord, and He has sent us to destroy it.H587H7843H853H4725H6818H1431H854H6440H3068H3068H7971H7843 14And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, Up, get out of this place, for the Lord will spoil {and} destroy this city! But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be [only] joking.H3876H3318H1696H2860H3947H1323H559H6965H3318H4725H3068H7843H5892H6711H5869H2860 15When morning came, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, Arise, take your wife and two daughters who are here [and be off], lest you [too] be consumed {and} swept away in the iniquity {and} punishment of the city.H3644H7837H5927H4397H213H3876H559H6965H3947H802H8147H1323H4672H5595H5771H5892 16But while he lingered, the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, for the Lord was merciful to him; and they brought him forth and set him outside the city and left him there.H4102H582H2388H3027H3027H802H3027H8147H1323H3068H2551H3318H3240H2351H5892 17And when they had brought them forth, they said, Escape for your life! Do not look behind you or stop anywhere in the whole valley; escape to the mountains [of Moab], lest you be consumed.H3318H2351H559H4422H5921H5315H5027H310H5975H3603H4422H2022H5595 18And Lot said to them, Oh, not that, my lords!H3876H559H113 19Behold now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your kindness and mercy to me in saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest the evil overtake me, and I die.H5650H4672H2580H5869H1431H2617H6213H5978H2421H5315H3201H4422H2022H7451H1692H4191 20See now yonder city; it is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh, let me escape to it! Is it not a little one? And my life will be saved!H5892H7138H5127H1931H4705H4422H4705H5315H2421 21And [the angel] said to him, See, I have yielded to your entreaty concerning this thing also; I will not destroy this city of which you have spoken.H559H2009H5375H6440H1697H2015H5892H834H1696 22Make haste and take refuge there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar [little].H4116H4422H3201H6213H1697H935H8034H5892H7121H6820 23The sun had risen over the earth when Lot entered Zoar.H8121H3318H776H3876H935H6820 24Then the Lord rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of the heavens.H3068H4305H5467H6017H1614H784H3068H8064 25He overthrew, destroyed, {and} ended those cities, and all the valley and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.H2015H411H5892H3603H3427H5892H6780H127 26But [Lot's] wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.H802H5027H310H5333H4417 27Abraham went up early the next morning to the place where he [only the day before] had stood before the Lord.H85H7925H1242H4725H5975H6440H3068 28And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley, and saw, and behold, the smoke of the country went up like the smoke of a furnace.H8259H6440H5467H6017H6440H776H3603H7200H7008H776H5927H7008H3536 29When God ravaged {and} destroyed the cities of the plain [of Siddim], He [earnestly] remembered Abraham [imprinted and fixed him indelibly on His mind], and He sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when He overthrew the cities where Lot lived.H430H7843H5892H3603H430H2142H85H7971H3876H8432H2018H2015H5892H2004H3876H3427 30And Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he feared to dwell in Zoar; and he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.H3876H5927H6820H3427H2022H8147H1323H3372H3427H6820H3427H4631H8147H1323 31The elder said to the younger, Our father is aging, and there is not a man on earth to live with us in the customary way.H1067H559H6810H1H2204H376H776H935H1870H776 32Come, let us make our father drunk with wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring (our race) through our father.H3212H8248H1H8248H3196H7901H2421H2233H1 33And they made their father drunk with wine that night, and the older went in and lay with her father; and he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she arose.H8248H1H8248H3196H3915H1067H935H7901H1H3045H7901H6965 34Then the next day the firstborn said to the younger, See here, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drunk with wine tonight also, and then you go in and lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring (our race) through our father.H4283H1067H559H6810H7901H570H1H8248H3196H3915H935H7901H2421H2233H1 35And they made their father drunk with wine again that night, and the younger arose and lay with him; and he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she arose.H8248H1H8248H3196H1931H3915H6810H6965H7901H3045H7901H6965 36Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.H8147H1323H3876H2029H1 37The older bore a son, and named him Moab [of a father]; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.H1067H3205H1121H7121H8034H4124H1931H1H4124H3117 38The younger also bore a son and named him Ben-ammi [son of my people]; he is the father of the Ammonites to this day.H6810H3205H1121H7121H8034H1151H1H1121H5983H3117
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