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Genesis 19

The Doom of Sodom

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Now the  atwo angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When  bLot saw them, he rose to meet them and  1bowed down with his face to the ground.

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And he said, "Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way." They said however, "No, but we shall spend the night in the square."

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Yet he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house;  aand he prepared a feast for them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

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Before they lay down,  athe men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people  1from every quarter;

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and they called to Lot and said to him, " aWhere are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may  1have relations with them."

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But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and shut the door behind him,

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and said, "Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.

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"Now behold,  aI have two daughters who have not  1had relations with man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them  2whatever you like; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the  3shelter of my roof."

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But they said, "Stand aside." Furthermore, they said, "This one came in  1as an alien, and already  ahe is acting like a judge; now we will treat you worse than them." So they pressed hard against  2Lot and came near to break the door.

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But  athe men reached out their  1hands and brought Lot into the house  2with them, and shut the door.

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 aThey  1struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the doorway.

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Then the two men said to Lot, "Whom else have you here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place;

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for we are about to destroy this place, because  atheir outcry has become so great before the LORD that  bthe LORD has sent us to destroy it."

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Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who  1were to marry his daughters, and said, "Up,  aget out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city."  bBut he appeared to his sons-in-law  2to be jesting.

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When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the  1punishment of the city."

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But he hesitated. So the men  aseized his hand and the hand of his wife and the  1hands of his two daughters, for  bthe compassion of the LORD was upon him; and they brought him out, and put him outside the city.

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When they had brought them outside,  1one said, " aEscape for your life!  bDo not look behind you, and do not stay  2anywhere in the  cvalley; escape to  dthe  3mountains, or you will be swept away."

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But Lot said to them, "Oh no, my lords!

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"Now behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindness, which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the  1mountains, for the disaster will overtake me and I will die;

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now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?)  1that my life may be saved."

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He said to him, "Behold, I grant you this  1request also, not to overthrow the town of which you have spoken.

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"Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there." Therefore the name of the town was called  1 aZoar.

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The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

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Then the LORD  arained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven,

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and  aHe overthrew those cities, and all the  1valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

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But his wife, from behind him,  alooked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

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Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went to  athe place where he had stood before the LORD;

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and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the  1valley, and he saw, and behold,  athe smoke of the land ascended like the smoke of a  2furnace.

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Thus it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the  1valley, that  aGod remembered Abraham, and  bsent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Lot Is Debased

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Lot went up from Zoar, and  1 astayed in the  2mountains, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to  3stay in Zoar; and he  1stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters.

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Then the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man  1on earth to  acome in to us after the manner of the earth.

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"Come,  alet us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him that we may preserve  1our family through our father."

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So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

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On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve  1our family through our father."

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So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger arose and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

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Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.

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The firstborn bore a son, and called his name  aMoab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

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As for the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the  1sons of  aAmmon to this day.



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