[1] And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at
the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them,
falling down on his face to the earth. [2] And he said, My masters, come
now into your servant's house and take your rest there for the night, and
let your feet be washed; and early in the morning you may go on your way.
And they said, Not so, but we will take our night's rest in the street. [3]
But he made his request more strongly, so they went with him into his
house; and he got food ready for them, and made unleavened bread, of which
they took. [4] But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all
the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of
the town; [5] And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came
to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our
pleasure with them. [6] And Lot went out to them in the doorway, shutting
the door after him. [7] And he said, My brothers, do not this evil. [8] See
now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that
you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these
men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof. [9] And
they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a
strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you
than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the
door broken in. [10] But the men put out their hands and took Lot into the
house to them, shutting the door again. [11] But the men who were outside
the door they made blind, all of them, small and great, so that they were
tired out with looking for the door. [12] Then the men said to Lot, Are
there any others of your family here? sons-in-law or sons or daughters,
take them all out of this place; [13] For we are about to send destruction
on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of
the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town. [14] And Lot
went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters,
Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send
destruction on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously.
[15] And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot
go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who
are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment
of the town. [16] But while he was waiting, the men took him and his wife
and his daughters by the hand, for the Lord had mercy on them, and put them
outside the town. [17] And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your
life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the
mountain or you will come to destruction. [18] And Lot said to them, Not
so, O my Lord; [19] See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and
great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able
to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death; [20] This
town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there (is it not a
little one?) so that my life may be safe. [21] And he said, See, I have
given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction
on this town. [22] Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till
you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar. [23] The sun
was up when Lot came to Zoar. [24] Then the Lord sent fire and flaming
smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah. [25] And he sent
destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of
those towns and every green thing in the land. [26] But Lot's wife, looking
back, became a pillar of salt. [27] And Abraham got up early in the morning
and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord: [28] And
looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the
smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven. [29] So it came about
that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his
word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns
where he was living. [30] Then Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and
was living there with his two daughters, for fear kept him from living in
Zoar: and he and his daughters made their living-place in a hole in the
rock. [31] And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old,
and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way: [32] Come,
let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we
may have offspring by our father, [33] And that night they made their
father take much wine; and the older daughter went into his bed; and he had
no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away. [34] And on the day
after, the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I was with my
father; let us make him take much wine this night again, and do you go to
him, so that we may have offspring by our father. [35] And that night again
they made their father take much wine; and the younger daughter went into
his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.
[36] And so the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father. [37]
And the older daughter had a son, and she gave him the name Moab: he is the
father of the Moabites to this day. [38] And the younger had a son and gave
him the name Ben-ammi: from him come the children of Ammon to this day.
