Genesis 19

1 And there came ^atwo angels to Sodom at even; and Lot⁴ sat^b in the gate of Sodom: and Lot, seeing them, rose up to meet them; and he ^cbowed himself with his face toward the ground;

2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and ^dwash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, ^eNay; but we will abide in the street all night.⁵

3 And he ^fpressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; ^gand he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.⁶

4 ¶ But ^hbefore they lay down, the men ⁱof the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter.

5 And ^kthey called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

7 And said, I pray you, ^lbrethren, do not so wickedly.

8 Behold now, ^mI have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes:⁷ only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

9 And they said, ⁿStand back. And they said again, This ^oone fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.⁸

10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.

11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness,⁹ both small and great: so that they ^pwearied themselves to find the door.

12 ¶ And the men said unto Lot, ^qHast thou here any besides? son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:

13 For ^rwe will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law, which married his daughters, and said, ^sUp, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he ^tseemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law.

15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, ^uArise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are ¹here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity² of the city.

16 And, ^xwhile he lingered,³ the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD ^ybeing merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, ^zEscape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

18 And Lot said unto them, ^aOh! not so, my Lord.

19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou ^bhast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest ^csome evil take me, and I die.

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.

21 And he said unto him, ^dSee, I have accepted thee³ concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

22 Haste thee, escape thither; for ^eI cannot do any thing⁴ till thou be come thither: therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

23 The ^fsun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

24 ¶ Then ^gthe LORD rained⁵ upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven:

25 And he overthrew those cities, and ^hall the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

26 ¶ But his wife ⁱlooked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.⁶

27 ¶ And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood ^kbefore the LORD:

28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the ^lsmoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God ^mremembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

30 ¶ And Lot ⁿwent up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in ^oZoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

31 ¶ And the first-born said unto the younger, Our father⁷ is old, and there is ^pnot a man in the earth ^qto come in unto us after the manner of all the earth;

32 Come, let us make our father ^rdrink wine, and we will ^slie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said unto the younger, Behold, ^tI lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

35 And they made their father drink wine ^uthat night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.⁸

36 Thus^x were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

37 And the first-born bare a son, and called his name Moab:⁹ the same is the father of the ^yMoabites unto this day.

38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi:¹ the same is the father of the ^zchildren of Ammon unto this day.