Gen 19
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And the two angels came to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot
saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth;
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and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, into your servant`s house,
and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and you shall rise up early, and go on your
way. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
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And he urged them greatly; and they turned in to him, and entered into his house;
and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
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But before they lay down, the men of the city, [even] the men of Sodom, compassed
the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;
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and they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that came in to you this
night? bring them out to us, that we may know them.
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And Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.
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And he said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly.
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Behold now, I have two daughters that have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring
them out to you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes: only to these men do
nothing, seeing that as they are come under the shadow of my roof.
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And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and
he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with you, than with them. And they
pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.
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But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut
to the door.
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And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small
and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
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And the men said to Lot, Have you here any besides? son-in-law, and your sons, and
your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:
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for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before YHWH:
and YHWH has sent us to destroy it.
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And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said,
Up, get you out of this place; for YHWH will destroy the city. But he seemed to his
sons-in-law as one that mocked.
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And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take your
wife, and your two daughters that are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of
the city.
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But he lingered; and the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife,
and upon the hand of his two daughters, YHWH being merciful to him; and they brought
him forth, and set him without the city.
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And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape
for your life; look not behind you, neither stay you in all the Plain; escape to the
mountain, lest you be consumed.
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And Lot said to them, Oh, not so, my lord:
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behold now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your
lovingkindness, which you have showed to me in saving my life; and I cannot escape
to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die:
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behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape
there (is it not a little one?), and my soul shall live.
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And he said to him, See, I have accepted you concerning this thing also, that I will
not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
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Haste you, escape there; for I cannot do anything till you be come there. Therefore
the name of the city was called Zoar.
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The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
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Then YHWH rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from YHWH out of
heaven;
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and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities,
and that which grew upon the ground.
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But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
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And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before YHWH:
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and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and
beheld, and, behold, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
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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 overthrow, when he overthrew the cities
in which Lot dwelt.
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And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with
him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
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And the first-born 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:
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come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve
seed of our father.
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And they made their father drink wine that night: and the first-born went in, and
lay with her father; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
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And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said to the younger, Behold,
I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and
go you in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
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And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and
lay with him; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
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Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
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And the first-born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of
the Moabites to this day.
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And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the
father of the children of Ammon to this day.