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Chapter 19 |
| 1 | And there came
two angels to Sodom at even; 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; |
| 2 |
And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into
your servant's 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. |
| 3 | 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. |
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4 | 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: |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | And Lot
went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, |
| 7 | And
said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. |
| 8 | 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. |
| 9 | 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. |
| 10 |
But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the
house to them, and shut to the door. |
| 11 | And they smote the men that
were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that
they wearied themselves to find the door. |
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12 | 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: |
| 13 | 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. |
| 14 | 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. |
| 15 | 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. |
| 16 |
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. |
| 17 |
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. |
| 18 | And
Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my LORD: |
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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 to the mountain,
lest some evil take me, and I die: |
| 20 | Behold now, this city is near
to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a
little one?) and my soul shall live. |
| 21 | 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. |
| 22 | Haste thee, escape thither;
for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the
city was called Zoar. |
| 23 | The sun was risen 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 he
overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the
cities, and that which grew upon the ground. |
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26 | But his wife looked
back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. |
| 27 | And Abraham
gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:
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| 28 | 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. |
| 29
| 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. |
| 30 | 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. |
| 31
| 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: |
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32 | Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we
will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. |
| 33 | 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. |
| 34
| 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. |
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35 | 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. |
| 36 | Thus were both the daughters
of Lot with child by their father. |
| 37 | And the first born bare a
son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this
day. |
| 38 |
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. |
