1And in the evening there came two Angels to Sodom: and Lot sat at the gate of Sodom, and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face to the ground.
2And he said, See my lords, I pray you turn in now into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early and go your ways. Who said, Nay, but we will abide in the street all night.
3Then he pressed upon them earnestly, and they turned in to him, and came to his house, and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
4But before they went to bed, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom compassed the house round about, from the young even to the old, all the people from all quarters.
5Who crying unto Lot said to him, Where are the men, which came to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
6Then Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
7And said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly.
8Behold now, I have two daughters, which have not known man: them will I bring out now unto you, and do them as seemeth you good: only unto these men do nothing: for therefore are they come under the shadow of my roof.
9Then they said, Away hence: and they said, He is come alone as a stranger, and shall he judge and rule? we will now deal worse with thee than with them. So they pressed sore upon Lot himself, and came to break the door.
10But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
11Then they smote the men that were at the door of the house, with blindness, both small and great, so that they were weary in seeking the door.
12Then the men said unto Lot, Whom hast thou yet here? either son-in-law, or thy sons or thy daughters, or whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring it out of this place.
13For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is great before the Lord, and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.
14Then Lot went out and spake unto his sons-in-law, which married his daughters, and said, Arise, get you out of this place: for the Lord will destroy the city, but he seemed to his sons-in-law, as though he had mocked.
15And when the morning arose, the Angels hasted Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife and thy two daughters which are here, lest thou be destroyed in the punishment of the city.
16And as he prolonged the time, the men caught both him and his wife, and his two daughters by the hands (the Lord being merciful unto him) and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
17And when they had brought them out, the Angel said, Escape for thy life: look not behind thee, neither tarry thou in all the plain: escape into the mountain, lest thou be destroyed.
18And Lot said unto them, Not so, I pray thee, my Lord.
19Behold 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 in the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die.
20See now this city hereby to flee unto, which is a little one: Oh let me escape thither: is it not a little one, and my soul shall live?
21Then he said unto him, Behold, I have received thy request also concerning this thing, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
22Haste thee, save thee there: for I can do nothing till thou come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
23The sun did rise upon the earth, when Lot entered into Zoar.
24Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven,
25And overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that grew upon the earth.
26Now his wife behind him looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27And Abraham rising up early in the morning went to the place, where he had stood before the Lord,
28And looking toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, behold, he saw the smoke of the land mounting up as the smoke of a furnace.
29But yet when God destroyed the cities of the plain, God thought upon Abraham, and sent Lot out from the midst of the destruction, when he overthrew the cities, wherein Lot dwelled.
30Then Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain with his two daughters for he feared to tarry in Zoar, but dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
31And the elder 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, we will make our father drink wine, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
33So they made their father drink wine that night, and the elder went and lay with her father: but he perceived not, neither when she lay down, neither when she rose up.
34And on the morrow the elder said to the younger, Behold, yester night lay I with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also, and go thou and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
35So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger arose, and lay with him: but he perceived it not, when she lay down, neither when she rose up.
36Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
37And the elder bare a son, and she called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
38And the younger bare a son also, and she called his name Ben-Ammi: the same is the father of the Ammonites unto this day.