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Chapter 19
Gene LEB 19:1  And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening. And Lot was sitting in the gateway of Sodom. Then Lot saw them and stood up to meet them. And he bowed down with his face to the ground.
Gene LEB 19:2  And he said, “Behold, my lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you can rise early and go on your way.” And they said, “No, but we will spend the night in the square.”
Gene LEB 19:3  But ⌞he urged them strongly⌟, and they turned aside with him and came into his house. And he made a meal for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
Gene LEB 19:4  Before they laid down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people ⌞to the last man⌟, surrounded the house.
Gene LEB 19:5  And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we may know them.”
Gene LEB 19:6  But Lot went out to them at the entrance, and he shut the door behind him.
Gene LEB 19:7  And he said, “No, my brothers, please do not do such a wrong thing.
Gene LEB 19:8  Behold, I have two daughters who have not known a man. Please, let me bring them out to you; then do to them as it seems good in your eyes. Only to these men do not do this thing, since they came under⌞ my roof⌟ for protection.”
Gene LEB 19:9  But they said, “Step aside!” Then they said, “⌞This fellow⌟ came to dwell as a foreigner and he acts as a judge! Now we shall do worse to you than them!” And they pressed very hard against the man, against Lot, and they drew near to break the door.
Gene LEB 19:10  Then the men reached out with their hands and brought Lot in to them, into the house, and they shut the door.
Gene LEB 19:11  And the men who were at the entrance of the house they struck with blindness, both small and great, and they were unable to find the entrance.
Gene LEB 19:12  Then the men said to Lot, “Who is here with you? Bring out from the place your sons-in-law, and your sons and your daughters, and all who are with you in the city.
Gene LEB 19:13  For we are about to destroy this place, because their cry has become great before Yahweh. Yahweh sent us to destroy it.”
Gene LEB 19:14  Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were taking his daughters and said, “Get up! Go out from this place, because Yahweh is going to destroy the city!” But ⌞it seemed like a joke⌟ in the eyes of his sons-in-law.
Gene LEB 19:15  And as the dawn came up the angels urged Lot saying, “Get up, take your wife and your two daughters ⌞who are staying with you⌟, lest you be destroyed with the punishment of the city.”
Gene LEB 19:16  But when he lingered, the men seized him by his hand and his wife’s hand, and his two daughters by hand, on account of the mercy of Yahweh upon him. And they brought him out and set him outside of the city.
Gene LEB 19:17  And after bringing them outside one said, “Flee for your life; do not look behind you, and do not stand anywhere in the plain. Flee to the mountains lest you be destroyed.”
Gene LEB 19:18  And Lot said to them, “No, please, my lords.
Gene LEB 19:19  Behold, your servant has found favor in your eyes and ⌞you have shown me great kindness⌟ in saving my life. But I cannot flee to the mountains, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.
Gene LEB 19:20  Behold, this city is near enough to flee there, and it is a little one. Please, let me flee there. Is it not a little one? Then my life shall be saved.”
Gene LEB 19:21  And he said to him, “Behold, ⌞I will grant this favor as well⌟; that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
Gene LEB 19:22  Escape there quickly, for I cannot do this thing until you get there.” Therefore, there name of the city was called Zoar.
Gene LEB 19:23  After the sun ⌞had risen⌟ upon the earth and Lot had entered Zoar,
Gene LEB 19:24  Yahweh rained down from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh.
Gene LEB 19:25  And he overthrew those cities and the whole plain, and the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation of the ground.
Gene LEB 19:26  But his wife looked ⌞back⌟, and she became a pillar of salt.
Gene LEB 19:27  And Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.
Gene LEB 19:28  And he looked down upon the surface of Sodom and Gomorrah, and upon the whole surface of the land, the plain. And he saw that, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a smelting furnace.
Gene LEB 19:29  So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out from the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
Gene LEB 19:30  And Lot went out from Zoar and settled in the hill country with his two daughters, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. So he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.
Gene LEB 19:31  And the firstborn daughter said to the younger one, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to come in to us according to the manner of all the land.
Gene LEB 19:32  Come, let us give our father wine to drink and let us lie with him that ⌞we may secure descendants through our father⌟.”
Gene LEB 19:33  And they gave their father wine to drink that night, and the firstborn went and lay with her father, but he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.
Gene LEB 19:34  And it happened that, the next day the firstborn said to the younger one, “Look, I laid with my father last night. Let us give him wine to drink also tonight, then go and lie with him that ⌞we may secure descendants through our father⌟.”
Gene LEB 19:35  And they gave their father wine to drink again that night, and the younger got up and lay with him, but he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.
Gene LEB 19:36  And the two daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.
Gene LEB 19:37  The firstborn gave birth to a son, and she called his name Moab. He is the father of Moab until this day.
Gene LEB 19:38  And the younger, she also gave birth to a son, and she called his name Ben-Ammi. He is the father of the ⌞Ammonites⌟ until this day.