Genesis 19

And there came ^atwo angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; ² And he said, Behold now, my lords, ^bturn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; ^cbut we will abide in the street all night. ³ And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and ^dhe made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

⁴ But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: ⁵ And ^fthey called unto Lot, and said unto him, ^eWhere are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. ⁶ And ^gLot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, ⁷ And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. ⁸ Behold now, I 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: only unto these men do nothing; for ^htherefore came they under the shadow of my roof. ⁹ And they said, Stand back. And they said again, ⁱThis one 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. 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 ^jwith blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

¹² And the men said unto Lot, Hast ^lthou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, ^kbring them out of this place: ¹³ For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath ^msent us to destroy it. ¹⁴ And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married ⁿhis daughters, and said, Up, ^oget you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed ^pas one that mocked unto his sons in law.

¹⁵ And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. ¹⁶ And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; ^qthe LORD being 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, ^rEscape for thy life; ^slook not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. ¹⁸ And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord: ¹⁹ Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou ^thast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some 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, See, I have accepted ^uthee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken. ²² Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was ^vcalled Zoar.

²³ The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. ²⁴ Then ^wthe LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; ²⁵ And he overthrew those cities, and all ^xthe plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. ²⁶ But his wife ^ylooked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

²⁷ And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he ^zstood before the LORD: ²⁸ And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, ^athe 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 ^bremembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

³⁰ And Lot went up out of Zoar, and ^cdwelt 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. ³¹ And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth ^dto come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: ³² Come, ^elet us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, ^fthat we may preserve seed of our father. ³³ And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn 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 firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I 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 that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not 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 bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same ^gis the father of the Moabites unto this day. ³⁸ And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the ^hsame is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

Genesis 20