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Title:       Old Testament, The
Book:        Genesis
Author:      Various
Date:        1885

Chapter 19

     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; 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
ye shall rise up early, and go on your way.  And they said, Nay; but we will
abide in the street all night.  And he urged them greatly; and they turned in
unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake
unleavened bread, and they did eat.  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; and they called unto Lot, and said unto
him, Where are the men that came in to thee this night?  bring them out unto
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; 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 ye shall
rise up early, and go on your way.  And they said, Nay; but we will abide in
the street all night.  And he urged them greatly; and they turned in unto him,
and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened
bread, and they did eat.  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; and they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where
are the men that came in to thee this night?  bring them out unto us, that we
may know them.  And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut the door
after him.  And he said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly.  Behold
now, I have two daughters that 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, ^1 forasmuch as they are come under the shadow of my roof.
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 thee, than with
them.  And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and drew near to break
the door.  But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to
them, and shut to the door.  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.

[Footnote 1: Or, for therefore]

     And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides?  son-in-law, and
thy sons, and thy daughters, and whomsoever thou hast in the city, bring them
out of the place: for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is
waxed great before Jehovah; and Jehovah hath sent us to destroy it.  And Lot
went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law, who ^2 married his daughters, and
said, Up, get you out of this place; for Jehovah will destroy the city.  But
he seemed unto his sons-in-law as one that mocked.  And when the morning
arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two
daughters that are here, lest thou be consumed in the ^3 iniquity of the city.
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, Jehovah being merciful unto him:
and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. And it came to pass,
when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life;
look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain; escape to the
mountain, lest thou be consumed.  And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, ^4 my
lord: behold now, thy servant hath found favor in thy sight, and thou hast
magnified thy lovingkindness, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my
life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest ^5 evil overtake me, and I
die: 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.  And
he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I
will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken.  Haste thee, escape
thither: for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither.  Therefore the
name of the city was called ^6 Zoar.

[Footnote 2: Or, were to marry]

[Footnote 3: Or, punishment]

[Footnote 4: Or, O Lord]

[Footnote 5: Or, the evil]

[Footnote 6: That is, Little.  See ver. 20; ch.14. 8]

     The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar.  Then Jehovah
rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of
heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the
inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.  But his wife
looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.  And Abraham gat
up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Jehovah: and he
looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and
beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

     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.

     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.  And the first-born said unto the younger, Our father
is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the
manner of all the earth: come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will
lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.  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.  And it came to
pass on the morrow, that the first-born 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.  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.  Thus were
both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. And the first-born bare
a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto
this day.  And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi:
the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.