Genesis Chapter 19

Genesis Chapter 19
1 And in 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 And he 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 Then he 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 But before 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 Who crying 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 Then Lot went out at the door unto
them, and shut the door after him, 7 And
said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so
wickedly. 8 Behold now, 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 Then they 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 But the men put forth their hand and
pulled Lot into the house to them and
shut to the door.
11 Then they 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 Then the 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 For we will destroy this place,
because the cry of them is great before
the Lord, and the Lord hath sent us to
destroy it.
14 Then Lot 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 And when 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 And as 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 And when 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 And Lot said unto them, Not so, I
pray thee, my Lord.
19 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 in the mountain, lest some
evil take me, and I die. 20 See now 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 Then he 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 Haste thee, save thee there: for I can
do nothing till thou be come thither.
Therefore the name of the city was
called Zoar.
23 The sun did rise upon the earth, when
Lot entered into Zoar. 24 Then the Lord
rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah
brimstone, and fire from the Lord out of
heaven,
25 And overthrew those cities and all
the plain, and all the inhabitants of the
cities; and that that grew upon the earth.
26 Now his wife behind him looked
back, and was turned into a pillar of salt.
27 And Abraham 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 But yet 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 Then Lot 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 And the 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 So they 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 And on 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 So they 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 Thus were both the daughters of Lot
with child by their father. 37 And the
elder bear a son, and she called his
name Moab: the same is the father of the
Moabites unto this day.
38 And the younger bear a son also, and
she called his name Ben-ammi: the same
is the father of the Ammonites unto this
day.