Chapter 19, And there came two angels to Sodom and Evan, 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.
And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servants'
house and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early,
and go on your ways.
And they said, Nay, but we will abide in the street all night.
And he pressed upon 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 old and young, all the people from every quarter.
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to
thee this night?
Bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, and said,
I pray you, brethren, do not sow wickedly.
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 therefore came they under the shadow
of my roof.
And they said, Stand back.
And they said again, 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 came near to break the door.
But the men put forth their hand, and pulled 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 weary themselves to find the door.
And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides, son-in-law, and thy sons,
and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this
place, for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great
before the face of the Lord, and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.
And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law, which married his daughters,
and said, Up, get you out of this place, for the Lord will destroy this city.
But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law.
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.
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, the Lord 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, O not so, my lord.
Behold now, 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 to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die.
Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one.
O 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 this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
Haste thee, escape thither, for I cannot do anything till thou become thither.
Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord
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 got up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord.
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain,
and beheld, and lo, the smoke of the country 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 the 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 firstborn 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 firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he perceived not when she lay
down, nor when she arose.
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.
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.
Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
And the firstborn 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 Benammi, the same is
the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.