The Beginning (Genesis) 19

  1The two angels got to Burning (Sodom) at evening; and Covering (Lot) sat in the gate of Burning (Sodom): and Covering (Lot) seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

 2He said, “Please, my lords, come into your servant's house, stay the night, and wash your feet. Then you can get up early and go your way.” But they said, “No, we will stay in the street all night.”

 3He continued to press the offer. They finally gave in, and went into his house; He made them a feast, with unleavened bread, and they ate.

 4But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Burning (Sodom), surrounded the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

 5And they called out to Covering (Lot), saying, “Where are the men which came in to you tonight? bring them out to us, that we may know them.”

 6So Covering (Lot) went outside to them, and shut the door behind him,

 7And said, “Please, brothers! Do not behave so wickedly.

 8Look, I have two daughters which have not known man. Please let me bring them out to you, and do with them what you want, only leave these men alone. They have come under my roof, which makes me responsible for their safety.”

 9But they said, “Stand back.” And to each other, “This one fellow came in to stay with us, and he is judging us” “Now will we deal worse with you, than with them.” And they rushed on the man Covering (Lot), and started to break the door down.

 10But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Covering (Lot) into the house with them, and shut to the door.

 11 They blinded the men that were at the door of the house both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

 12 The men said to Covering (Lot), “Have you here any besides these?Go get your son in law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of this place:

 13For we will destroy this place, because the cry against them has grown great before the face of I AM (The LORD Yehovah); and I AM (The LORD Yehovah) has sent us to destroy it.

 14So Covering (Lot) went out, and spoke to his sons in law, who married his daughters, and said, “Up, get out of this place; for I AM (The LORD Yehovah) will destroy this city.” But his sons in law mocked him.

 15When the sun rose, the angels hurried Covering (Lot), saying, Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters, who are here; lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”

 16And 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; I AM (The LORD Yehovah) being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him outside the city.

 17And it came to pass, when they had brought them out, that he said, “Escape for your life; Do not look back, and don't stay in the plain; escape to the mountain, or you will be consumed.

 18And Covering (Lot) said to them, “Oh, please no, my LORD (Adonay):

 19Behold now, your servant has found grace in your sight, and you have magnified your mercy, which you have showed to me in saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

 20Look, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape there, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.”

 21And he said unto him, “OK, I can accept this. I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken.

 22Hurry, escape there. I cannot do anything till you are there. Therefore the name of the city was called Insignificant (Zoar).

 23The sun was risen upon the earth when Covering (Lot) entered into Insignificant (Zoar).

 24Then I AM (The LORD Yehovah) rained upon Burning (Sodom) and upon Tyrants (Gomorrah) brimstone and fire from I AM (The LORD Yehovah) out of heaven;

 25And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

 26But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

 27Father of a Multitude (Abraham) went up early in the morning to the place where he stood before I AM (The LORD Yehovah):

 28And he looked toward Burning (Sodom) and Tyrants (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.

 29So it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Father of a Multitude (Abraham), and sent Covering (Lot) out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Covering (Lot) dwelt.

 30And Covering (Lot) went up out of Insignificant (Zoar), and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Insignificant (Zoar): and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

 31And 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:

 32Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

 33And 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.

 34And 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 you in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

 35And 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.

 36Thus were both the daughters of Covering (Lot) with child by their father.

 37And the first born bore a son, and called his name Of His Father (Moab): the same is the father of the Of His Fatherites, Moabites unto this day.

 38And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Son of My People (Benammi): the same is the father of the children of Tribal (Ammon) unto this day.