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GENESIS · Chapter 19
19:1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the
gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself
with his face toward the ground;
19:2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your
servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and all of you
shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will
abide in the street all night.
19:3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him,
and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened
bread, and they did eat.
19:4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of
Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from
every quarter:
19:5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men
which came in to you this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know
them.
19:6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after
him,
19:7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
19:8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let
me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do all of you to them as is
good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they
under the shadow of my roof.
19:9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow
came in to sojourn, and he will essentially be a judge: now will we deal
worse with you, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even
Lot, and came near to break the door.
19:10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house
to them, and shut to the door.
19:11 And they stroke the men that were at the door of the house with
blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find
the door.
19:12 And the men said unto Lot, Have you here any besides? son in
law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whatsoever you have in the
city, bring them out of this place:
19:13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is becoming
great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD has sent us to destroy
it.
19:14 And Lot went out, and spoke unto his sons in law, which married
his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will
destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
19:15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying,
Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters, which are here; lest you
be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
19:16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon
the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD
being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without
the city.
19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad,
that he said, Escape for your life; look not behind you, neither stay you
in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.
19:18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my LORD:
19:19 Behold now, your servant has found grace in your sight, and you
have magnified your mercy, which you have showed unto me in saving my life;
and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
19:20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little
one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall
live.
19:21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted you concerning this
thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which you have
spoken.
19:22 Haste you, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till you
be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
19:23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
19:24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and
fire from the LORD out of heaven;
19:25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the
inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar
of salt.
19:27 And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he
stood before the LORD:
19:28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land
of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as
the smoke of a furnace.
19:29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain,
that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow,
when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
19:30 And 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 dwelt in
a cave, he and his two daughters.
19:31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and
there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of
all the earth:
19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with
him, that we may preserve seed of 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 perceived not when she lay down,
nor when she arose.
19:34 And it came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said
unto the younger, Behold, I lay last night with my father: let us make
him drink wine this night also; and go you in, and lie with him, that we
may preserve seed of our father.
19:35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the
younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down,
nor when she arose.
19:36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
19:37 And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the
same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
19:38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi:
the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
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