THE BOOK OF GENESIS

 

Genesis Chapter 19

1 ¶ And two angels came to Sodom at evening; and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom: and seeing them Lot rose up to meet them; and he bowed 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 remain all night, and wash your feet, then you may rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, No; we will remain in the street all night.

3 But he urged them strongly; and they turned aside to him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

4 ¶ But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

5 And 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 know them sexually.

6 And Lot went out of the door to them, and shut the door behind him,

7 And said, I beg you, brethren, do not act so wickedly.

8 Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known man; let me, I beg you, bring them out to you, and do to them as you like: only do nothing to these men; for they have come under the shadow of my roof.

9 And they said, Stand back. And they said, This man came in to sojourn, and he would play the judge: now will we will deal worse with you, than with them. And they pressed hard against Lot, and almost broke the door.

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

11 And they smote the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wore themselves out trying to find the door.

12 ¶ And the men said to Lot, Have you anyone else here? sons in law, sons, daughters, or anyone you have in the city, get them out of this place:

13 For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has become great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.

14 And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law, who married his daughters, and said, Up, get out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But to his sons in law he seemed like one who mocked.

15 ¶ And when morning arrived, then the angels urged Lot, saying, Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters, who are here; lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.

16 But he hesitated, so the men seized his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful to him: and they brought him out, and put him outside the city.

17 And when they had brought them outside, he said, Flee for your life; do not look back, or stop anywhere in the plain; flee to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

18 And Lot said to them, Oh, no, my Lord:

19 Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your mercy, which you have shown to me by saving my life; but I cannot flee to the mountain, lest some evil overtake me, and I die:

20 Look, yonder city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one: Oh, let me flee there, (is it not a little one?) and my life shall be spared.

21 And he said to him, Behold, I am granting you this request also, that I will not destroy that city, for which you have spoken.

22 Hurry, flee there; for I cannot do any thing until you have gone there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot entered to Zoar.

24 ¶ Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

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

26 ¶ But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

27 ¶ And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:

28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and the smoke 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 remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the destruction, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

30 ¶ And Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, with his two daughters; for he was afraid to live in Zoar: and he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.

31 And the firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth:

32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father.

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

34 And it came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, Behold, last night I lay with my father: let us also make him drink wine tonight; and you go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed through our father.

35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

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

37 And the firstborn bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites to this day.

38 And the younger, also bore a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.