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[1]Andin the evening there came two angels to Sodom: and Lot sat at the gate of Sodom, and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face to the ground.
[2]Andhe said, See my Lords, I pray you turn in now into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early and go your ways. Who said, Nay, but we will abide in the street all night.
[3]Thenhe pressed upon them earnestly, and they turned in to him, and came to his house, and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
[4]Butbefore they went to bed, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom compassed the house round about from the young to the old, all the people from all quarters.
[5]Whocrying unto Lot said to him, Where are the men, which came to thee this night? Bring them out unto us that we may know them.
[6]ThenLot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
[7]Andsaid, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly.
[8]Beholdnow, I have two daughters, which have not known man: them will I bring out now unto you, and do to them as seemeth you good: only unto these men do nothing: for therefore are they come under the shadow of my roof.
[9]Thenthey said, Away hence, and they said, He is come alone as a stranger, and shall he judge and rule? We will now deal worse with thee than with them. So they pressed sore upon Lot himself, and came to break the door.
[10]Butthe men put forth their hand and pulled Lot into the house to them and shut to the door.
[11]Thenthey smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness both small and great, so that they were weary in seeking the door.
[12]Thenthe men said unto Lot, Whom hast thou yet here? Either son in law, or thy sons, or thy daughters, or whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring it out of this place.
[13]Forwe will destroy this place, because the cry of them is great before the Lord, and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.
[14]ThenLot went out and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Arise, get you out of this place: for the Lord will destroy the city: but he seemed to his sons in law as though he had mocked.
[15]Andwhen the morning arose, the angels hasted Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife and thy two daughters which are here, lest thou be destroyed in the punishment of the city.
[16]Andas he prolonged the time, the men caught both him and his wife, and his two daughters by the hands (the Lord being merciful unto him) and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
[17]Andwhen they had brought them out, the angel said, Escape for thy life: look not behind thee, neither tarry thou in all the plain escape into the mountain, lest thou be destroyed.
[18]AndLot said unto them, Not so, I pray thee, my Lord.
[19]Beholdnow, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life: and I cannot escape in the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die.
[20]Seenow this city hereby to flee unto, which is a little one: Oh let me escape thither: is it not a little one, and my soul shall live?
[21]Thenhe said unto him, Behold, I have received thy request also concerning this thing, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
[22]Hastethee, save thee there: for I can do nothing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
[23]Thesun did rise upon the earth, when Lot entered into Zoar.
[24]Thenthe Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone, and fire from the Lord out of heaven,
[25]Andoverthrew those cities and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities; and that that grew upon the earth.
[26]Nowhis wife behind him looked back, and was turned into a pillar of salt.
[27]AndAbraham rising up early in the morning went to the place, where he had stand before the Lord, and looking toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain:
[28]Behold,he saw the smoke of the land mounting up as the smoke of a furnace.
[29]Butyet when God destroyed the cities of the plain, God thought upon Abraham, and sent Lot out from the midst of the destruction, when he overthrew the cities, wherein Lot dwelled.
[30]ThenLot went up from Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain with his two daughters: for he feared to tarry in Zoar, but dwelt in a cave, he, and his two daughters.
[31]Andthe elder 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.
[32]Come,we will make our father drink wine, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
[33]Sothey made their father drink wine that night, and the elder went and lay with her father: but he perceived not, neither when she lay down, neither when she rose up.
[34]Andon the morrow the elder said to the younger, Behold, yester night lay I with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also, and go thou and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
[35]Sothey made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger arose, and lay with him, but he perceived not, when she lay down, neither when she rose up.
[36]Thuswere both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
[37]Andthe elder bear a son, and she called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
[38]Andthe younger bear a son also, and she called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the Ammonites unto this day.
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