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BOOK OF GENESIS
GENESIS 19
1The two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them he rose to meet them, and bowing low with his face to the ground,
2He said, My lords, please, turn aside to your servant's house to spend the night, and wash your feet; then you can rise early and go on your way. They replied, No, we will spend the night in the town square.
3But he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
4But before they lay down, all the men of the city, both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom, surrounded the house.
5And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.
6So Lot went out to them, and shut the door behind him,
7And said, Please, my brothers, do not do this wicked thing.
8Look, I have two daughters who have not known a man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you wish. Only to these men do nothing, because they have come under the protection of my roof.
9Stand back, they cried, and then declared, This fellow came in to sojourn, and now he dares to judge us. We will deal worse with you than with them. And they pressed hard upon the man, Lot, and came near to break down the door.
10But the men inside reached out, pulled Lot back into the house with them, and shut the door.
11Then they struck the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, young and old, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.
12And the men said to Lot, Have you anyone else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, whomever you have in the city, get them out of this place;
13For we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place has grown so great before the LORD, that the LORD has sent us to destroy it.
14So Lot went out and spoke to his sons in law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, Hurry, get out of this place, because the LORD is about to destroy this city. But his son-in-laws thought he was jesting.
15At dawn the angels hurried Lot, saying, Get going, take your wife and your two daughters who are here; lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.
16When Lot still hesitated, the men took hold of his hand, and the hands of his wife and two daughters, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him forth and set him outside the city.
17When they had brought them outside, they said, Flee for your life. Do not look back, nor stop anywhere in the plain. Flee to the mountains, lest you be consumed.
18But Lot said to them, No, my Lords, please!
19Your servant has found favour in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountain, lest this disaster overtake me and I die.
20Look, that city there is near enough to flee to; and it is just a little one. Let me escape there. It's just a little place isn't it? And my life will be saved.
21He answered Lot, Very well, I will grant this request also, and not overthrow this city of which you have spoken.
22Hurry, flee there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there. Therefore the city was called Zoar.
23The sun had just risen over the land when Lot entered Zoar.
24Then the LORD rained down sulphur and fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah. Sulfurous fire from the LORD out of heaven.
25So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all that grew on the ground.
26But Lot's wife looked back and she became a pillar of salt.
27Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the LORD,
28And looking toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.
29So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the destruction, when He overthrew the cities where Lot had dwelt.
30And Lot went up out of Zoar, and settled in the hill country with his two daughters, for he feared to dwell in Zoar; so he and his two daughters dwelt in a cave.
31And the firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere near us to give us children, after the manner of all the earth.
32Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father.
33So 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.
34So the next day, the firstborn said to the younger, Look, I lay with father last night; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father.
35And they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger went in and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
36Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.
37And the firstborn bore a son, and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.
38And the younger also bore a son, and called his name Benammi; the same is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.
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