Genesis 19
1
And two of the messengers come towards Sodom at even, and Lot is sitting at the
gate of Sodom, and Lot seeth, and riseth
to meet them, and boweth himself--face to the earth,
2 and he saith, `Lo, I pray you, my lords, turn
aside, I pray you, unto the house of your servant, and lodge, and wash your
feet--then ye have risen early and gone on your way;' and they say, `Nay, but
in the *broad
place we do lodge.' 3 And he presseth on them
greatly, and they turn aside unto him, and come in unto his house; and he maketh for them a banquet, and hath baked unleavened
things; and they do eat. 4 Before they lie down, the men of the city--men of
Sodom--have come round about against the house, from
young even unto aged, all the people from the extremity; 5 and they call unto
Lot and say to him, `Where [are] the men who have come in unto thee to-night?
bring them out unto us, and we know them.' 6 And Lot goeth
out unto them, to the opening, and the door hath shut behind him, 7 and saith, `Do not, I pray you, my brethren, do evil; 8 lo, I
pray you, I have two daughters, who have not known any one; let me, I pray you,
bring them out unto you, and do to them as [is] good in your eyes; only to
these men do not anything, for therefore have they come in within the shadow of
my roof.' 9 And they say, `Come nigh hither;' they say also, `This one hath
come in to sojourn, and he certainly judgeth! now, we
do evil to thee more than [to] them;' and they press against the man, against
Lot greatly, and come nigh to break the door. 10 And the men put forth their
hand, and bring in Lot unto them, into the house, and have shut the door; 11
and the men who [are] at the opening of the house they have smitten with
blindness, from small even unto great, and they weary themselves to find the
opening. 12 And the men say unto Lot, `Whom hast thou here still? son-in-law,
thy sons also, and thy daughters, and all whom thou hast in the city, bring out
from this place; 13 for we are destroying this place, for their cry hath been
great [before] the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth send us to destroy it.' 14
And Lot goeth out, and speaketh
unto his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and saith,
`Rise, go out from this place, for Jehovah is destroying the city;' and he is
as [one] mocking in the eyes of his sons-in-law. 15 And when the dawn hath
ascended, then the messengers press upon Lot, saying, `Rise, take thy wife, and
thy two daughters who are found present, lest thou be consumed in the *iniquity of the
city.' 16 And he lingereth, and the men lay hold on
his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters,
through the mercy of Jehovah unto him, and they bring him out, and cause him to
rest without the city. 17 And it cometh to pass when he hath brought them out
without, that he saith, `Escape for thy life; look
not expectingly behind thee, nor stand thou in all
the circuit; to the mountain escape, lest thou be consumed.' 18 And Lot saith unto them, `Not [so], I pray thee, my lord; 19 lo, I
pray thee, thy servant hath found grace in thine eyes, and thou dost make great
thy kindness which thou hast done with me by saving my life, and I am unable to
escape to the mountain, lest the evil cleave [to] me, and I have died; 20 lo, I
pray thee, this city [is] near to flee thither, and it [is] little; let me
escape, I pray thee, thither, (is it not little?) and my soul doth live.' 21
And he saith unto him, `Lo, I have accepted thy face
also for this thing, without overthrowing the city [for] which thou hast
spoken; 22 haste, escape thither, for I am not able to do anything till thine
entering thither;' therefore hath he calleth the name
of the city *Zoar. 23 The sun hath gone out on the earth, and Lot hath
entered into Zoar, 24 and Jehovah hath rained upon
Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens; 25
and He overthroweth these cities, and all the
circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which is shooting up
from the ground. 26 And his wife looketh expectingly from behind him, and she is--a pillar of salt!
27 And Abraham riseth early in the morning, unto the
place where he hath stood [before] the face of Jehovah; 28 and he looketh on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the
face of the land of the circuit, and seeth, and lo,
the smoke of the land went up as smoke of the furnace. 29 And it cometh to
pass, in God's destroying the cities of the circuit, that God remembereth Abraham, and sendeth
Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in the overthrowing of the cities in which
Lot dwelt. 30 And Lot goeth up out of Zoar, and dwelleth in the
mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he hath been afraid of dwelling
in Zoar, and he dwelleth in
a cave, he and his two daughters. 31 And the first-born saith
unto the younger, `Our father [is] old, and a man there is not in the earth to
come in unto us, as [is] the way of all the earth; 32 come, we cause our father
to drink wine, and lie with him, and preserve from our father--a seed.' 33 And
they cause their father to drink wine on that night; and the first-born goeth in, and lieth with her
father, and he hath not known in her lying down, or in her rising up. 34 And it
cometh to pass, on the morrow, that the first-born saith
unto the younger, `Lo, I have lain yesterday-night with my father: we cause him
to drink wine also to-night, and go thou in, lie with him, and we preserve from
our father--a seed.' 35 And they cause their father to drink wine on that night
also, and the younger riseth and lieth
with him, and he hath not known in her lying down, or in her rising up. 36 And
the two daughters of Lot conceive from their father, 37 and the first-born beareth a son, and calleth his
name *Moab; he [is]
father of Moab unto this day; 38 as to the younger, she also hath born a son,
and calleth his name *Ben-Ammi: he
[is] father of the Beni-Ammon unto this day.