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Yahweh Destroys Sodom and Gomorrah

¹ Then the ^(C1)two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. ^(C2)Lot saw them and rose to meet them and ^(F1)bowed down with his ^(F2)face to the ground.² 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."³ Yet he pressed them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; ^(C1)and he made a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.⁴ Before they lay down, ^(C1)the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, from young to old, all the people ^(F1)from every quarter;⁵ and they called to Lot and said to him, "^(C1)Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may ^(F1)know them."⁶ But Lot went out to them at the doorway and shut the door behind him,⁷ and said, "Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.⁸ "Now behold, ^(C1)I have two daughters who have not known a man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them what is good in your eyes; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the ^(F1)shelter of my roof."⁹ But they said, "Step aside." Furthermore, they said, "This one came to sojourn, and already ^(C1)he is persistently acting like a judge; now we will treat you more wickedly than them." So they pressed hard against ^(F1)Lot and stepped up to break the door.¹⁰ But ^(C1)the men reached out their ^(F1)hands and brought Lot into the house ^(F2)with them and shut the door.^11 (C1)And they ^(F1)struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, from small to great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the doorway.

¹² Then the two men said to Lot, "Whom else have you here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and everyone you have in the city, bring them out of the place;¹³ for we are about to destroy this place because ^(C1)their outcry has become great before Yahweh, so ^(C2)Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."¹⁴ And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who ^(F1)were to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up, ^(C1)get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." ^(C2)But he appeared to his sons-in-law ^(F2)to be jesting.

¹⁵ Now at the ^(F1)breaking of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the ^(F2)punishment of the city."¹⁶ But he hesitated. So the men ^(C1)seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the ^(F1)hands of his two daughters, for ^(C2)the compassion of Yahweh was upon him; and they brought him out and put him outside the city.¹⁷ Now it happened, as they brought them outside, ^(F1)one said, "^(C1)Escape for your life! ^(C2)Do not look behind you, and do not stay ^(F2)anywhere in the ^(C3)valley; escape to ^(C4)the ^(F3)mountains, lest you be swept away."¹⁸ But Lot said to them, "Oh no, my lords!¹⁹ "Now behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindness, which you have shown me by preserving my life; but I cannot escape to the ^(F1)mountains, lest calamity overtake me and I die;²⁰ now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) ^(F1)that my life may be preserved."²¹ And he said to him, "Behold, I grant you this ^(F1)request also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.²² "Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there." Therefore the name of the city was called ^(F1)(C1)Zoar.

²³ The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar.²⁴ And Yahweh ^(C1)rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh out of heaven,²⁵ and ^(C1)He overthrew those cities, and all the ^(F1)valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.²⁶ Then his wife, from behind him, ^(C1)looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

²⁷ Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went to ^(C1)the place where he had stood before Yahweh;²⁸ and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the ^(F1)valley, and he saw, and behold, ^(C1)the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a ^(F2)furnace.

²⁹ Thus it happened, when God destroyed the cities of the ^(F1)valley, that ^(C1)God remembered Abraham and ^(C2)sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Lot and His Daughters

³⁰ And Lot went up from Zoar and ^(F1)(C1)stayed in the ^(F2)mountains, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to ^(F3)stay in Zoar; and he ^(F1)stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters.³¹ Then the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man ^(F1)on earth to ^(C1)come in to us after the manner of the earth.³² "Come, ^(C1)let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him that we may preserve our seed through our father."³³ 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.³⁴ Now it happened on the following day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; and you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve our seed through our father."³⁵ 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.³⁶ Thus both the daughters of Lot conceived by their father.³⁷ And the firstborn bore a son and called his name ^(C1)Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.³⁸ As for the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the ^(F1)sons of ^(C1)Ammon to this day.