Chapter 19
1 The two angels came to Sodom at evening . Lot sat in the gate of Sodom . Lot saw them , and rose up to meet them . He bowed himself with his face to the earth,
2 and he said, " See now , my lords, please come into your servant ’s house , stay all night , wash your feet , and you can rise up early , and go on your way ." They said, " No , but we will stay in the street all night ."
3 He urged them greatly , and they came in with him , and entered into his house . He made them a feast , and baked unleavened bread , and they ate.
4 But before they lay down , the men of the city , the men of Sodom , surrounded the house , both young and old , all the people from every quarter .
5 They called to Lot , and said to him , "Where are the men who came in to you this night ? Bring them out to us , that we may have sex with them ."
6 Lot went out to them through the door , and shut the door after himself.
7 He said, " Please , my brothers, don’t act so wickedly .
8 See now , I have two virgin daughters . Please let me bring them out to you , and you may do to them what seems good to you . Only don’t do anything to these men , because they have come under the shadow of my roof ."
9 They said, " Stand back !" Then they said, " This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge . Now we will deal worse with you than with them !" They pressed hard on the man Lot , and came near to break the door .
10 But the men reached out their hand , and brought Lot into the house to them , and shut the door .
11 They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness , both small and great , so that they wearied themselves to find the door .
12 The men said to Lot , " Do you have anybody else here ? Sons-in-law , your sons , your daughters , and whomever you have in the city , bring them out of the place :
13 for we will destroy this place , because the outcry against them has grown so great before the LORD that the LORD has sent us to destroy it ."
14 Lot went out , and spoke to his sons-in-law , who were pledged to marry his daughters , and said , " Get up ! Get out of this place , for the LORD will destroy the city !" But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
15 When the morning came , then the angels hurried Lot , saying, " Get up ! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here , lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city ."
16 But he lingered ; and the men grabbed his hand , his wife’s hand , and his two daughters ’ hands , the LORD being merciful to him ; and they took him out , and set him outside of the city .
17 It came to pass , when they had taken them out , that he said , " Escape for your life ! Don’t look behind you , and don’t stay anywhere in the plain . Escape to the mountains , lest you be consumed !"
18 Lot said to them , " Oh , not so , my lord.
19 See now , your servant has found favour in your sight , and you have magnified your loving kindness , which you have shown to me in saving my life . I can ’t escape to the mountain , lest evil overtake me , and I die .
20 See now , this city is near to flee to , and it is a little one . Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one ?), and my soul will live ."
21 He said to him , " Behold , I have granted your request concerning this thing also , that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken .
22 Hurry , escape there , for I can ’t do anything until you get there ." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar .
23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar .
24 Then the LORD rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulphur and fire from the LORD out of the sky .
25 He overthrew those cities , all the plain , all the inhabitants of the cities , and that which grew on the ground.
26 But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him , and she became a pillar of salt .
27 Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD .
28 He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah , and towards all the land of the plain , and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace .
29 When God destroyed the cities of the plain , God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow , when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived .
30 Lot went up out of Zoar , and lived in the mountain , and his two daughters with him ; for he was afraid to live in Zoar . He lived in a cave with his two daughters .
31 The firstborn said to the younger , " Our father is old , and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.
32 Come , let ’s make our father drink wine , and we will lie with him , that we may preserve our father’s family line ."
33 They made their father drink wine that night : and the firstborn went in , and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down , nor when she arose .
34 It came to pass on the next day , that the firstborn said to the younger , " Behold , I lay last night with my father. Let ’s make him drink wine again tonight . You go in , and lie with him , that we may preserve our father’s family line ."
35 They made their father drink wine that night also . The younger went and lay with him . He didn’t know when she lay down , nor when she got up .
36 Thus both of Lot ’s daughters were with child by their father.
37 The firstborn bore a son , and named him Moab . He is the father of the Moabites to this day .
38 The younger also bore a son , and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day .