19When the two angels came to Sodom that evening, Lot was sitting at the city gate. As soon as he saw them, he got up and went to meet them. He bowed down before themH935H8147H4397H5467H6153H3876H3427H8179H5467H3876H7200H6965H7125H7812H639H776 2and said, "Sirs, I am here to serve you. Please come to my house. You can wash your feet and spend the night. In the morning you can get up early and go on your way." But they answered, "No, we will spend the night here in the city square."H559H113H5493H5650H1004H3885H7364H7272H7925H1980H1870H559H3885H7339H3885 3He kept on urging them, and finally they went with him to his house. Lot ordered his servants to bake some bread and prepare a fine meal for the guests. When it was ready, they ate it.H6484H3966H5493H935H1004H6213H4960H644H4682H398 4Before the guests went to bed, the men of Sodom surrounded the house. All the men of the city, both young and old, were there.H7901H582H5892H582H5467H5437H1004H5437H2205H5288H5971H7097 5They called out to Lot and asked, "Where are the men who came to stay with you tonight? Bring them out to us!" The men of Sodom wanted to have sex with them.H7121H3876H559H582H935H3915H3318H3045 6Lot went outside and closed the door behind him.H3876H3318H6607H5462H1817H310 7He said to them, "Friends, I beg you, don't do such a wicked thing!H559H251H7489 8Look, I have two daughters who are still virgins. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do whatever you want with them. But don't do anything to these men; they are guests in my house, and I must protect them."H8147H1323H3045H376H3318H6213H2896H5869H411H582H6213H408H1697H935H6738H6982 9But they said, "Get out of our way, you foreigner! Who are you to tell us what to do? Out of our way, or we will treat you worse than them." They pushed Lot back and moved up to break down the door.H559H5066H1973H559H259H935H1481H8199H8199H7489H6484H3966H376H3876H5066H7665H1817 10But the two men inside reached out, pulled Lot back into the house, and shut the door.H582H7971H3027H935H3876H1004H5462H1817 11Then they struck all the men outside with blindness, so that they couldn't find the door.H5221H582H6607H1004H5575H6996H1419H3811H4672H6607 12The two men said to Lot, "If you have anyone else here - sons, daughters, sons-in-law, or any other relatives living in the city - get them out of here,H582H559H3876H6311H4310H2860H1121H1323H834H5892H3318H4725 13because we are going to destroy this place. The LORD has heard the terrible accusations against these people and has sent us to destroy Sodom."H587H7843H853H4725H6818H1431H854H6440H3068H3068H7971H7843 14Then Lot went to the men that his daughters were going to marry, and said, "Hurry up and get out of here; the LORD is going to destroy this place." But they thought he was joking.H3876H3318H1696H2860H3947H1323H559H6965H3318H4725H3068H7843H5892H6711H5869H2860 15At dawn the angels tried to make Lot hurry. "Quick!" they said. "Take your wife and your two daughters and get out, so that you will not lose your lives when the city is destroyed."H3644H7837H5927H4397H213H3876H559H6965H3947H802H8147H1323H4672H5595H5771H5892 16Lot hesitated. The LORD, however, had pity on him; so the men took him, his wife, and his two daughters by the hand and led them out of the city.H4102H582H2388H3027H3027H802H3027H8147H1323H3068H2551H3318H3240H2351H5892 17Then one of the angels said, "Run for your lives! Don't look back and don't stop in the valley. Run to the hills, so that you won't be killed."H3318H2351H559H4422H5921H5315H5027H310H5975H3603H4422H2022H5595 18But Lot answered, "No, please don't make us do that, sir.H3876H559H113 19You have done me a great favor and saved my life. But the hills are too far away; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die before I get there.H5650H4672H2580H5869H1431H2617H6213H5978H2421H5315H3201H4422H2022H7451H1692H4191 20Do you see that little town? It is near enough. Let me go over there - you can see it is just a small place - and I will be safe."H5892H7138H5127H1931H4705H4422H4705H5315H2421 21He answered, "All right, I agree. I won't destroy that town.H559H2009H5375H6440H1697H2015H5892H834H1696 22Hurry! Run! I can't do anything until you get there." Because Lot called it small, the town was named Zoar.H4116H4422H3201H6213H1697H935H8034H5892H7121H6820 23The sun was rising when Lot reached Zoar.H8121H3318H776H3876H935H6820 24Suddenly the LORD rained burning sulfur on the cities of Sodom and GomorrahH3068H4305H5467H6017H1614H784H3068H8064 25and destroyed them and the whole valley, along with all the people there and everything that grew on the land.H2015H411H5892H3603H3427H5892H6780H127 26But Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt.H802H5027H310H5333H4417 27Early the next morning Abraham hurried to the place where he had stood in the presence of the LORD.H85H7925H1242H4725H5975H6440H3068 28He looked down at Sodom and Gomorrah and the whole valley and saw smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a huge furnace.H8259H6440H5467H6017H6440H776H3603H7200H7008H776H5927H7008H3536 29But when God destroyed the cities of the valley where Lot was living, he kept Abraham in mind and allowed Lot to escape to safety.H430H7843H5892H3603H430H2142H85H7971H3876H8432H2018H2015H5892H2004H3876H3427 30Because Lot was afraid to stay in Zoar, he and his two daughters moved up into the hills and lived in a cave.H3876H5927H6820H3427H2022H8147H1323H3372H3427H6820H3427H4631H8147H1323 31The older daughter said to her sister, "Our father is getting old, and there are no men in the whole world to marry us so that we can have children.H1067H559H6810H1H2204H376H776H935H1870H776 32Come on, let's get our father drunk, so that we can sleep with him and have children by him."H3212H8248H1H8248H3196H7901H2421H2233H1 33That night they gave him wine to drink, and the older daughter had intercourse with him. But he was so drunk that he didn't know it.H8248H1H8248H3196H3915H1067H935H7901H1H3045H7901H6965 34The next day the older daughter said to her sister, "I slept with him last night; now let's get him drunk again tonight, and you sleep with him. Then each of us will have a child by our father."H4283H1067H559H6810H7901H570H1H8248H3196H3915H935H7901H2421H2233H1 35So that night they got him drunk, and the younger daughter had intercourse with him. Again he was so drunk that he didn't know it.H8248H1H8248H3196H1931H3915H6810H6965H7901H3045H7901H6965 36In this way both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their own father.H8147H1323H3876H2029H1 37The older daughter had a son, whom she named Moab. He was the ancestor of the present-day Moabites.H1067H3205H1121H7121H8034H4124H1931H1H4124H3117 38The younger daughter also had a son, whom she named Benammi. He was the ancestor of the present-day Ammonites.H6810H3205H1121H7121H8034H1151H1H1121H5983H3117
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