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Genesis 19 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Yahweh Destroys Sodom and Gomorrah

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Then the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them and rose to meet them and [fn]bowed down with his [fn]face to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:2 - 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.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:3 - Yet he pressed them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he made a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, from young to old, all the people [fn]from every quarter;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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 that we may [fn]know them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:6 - But Lot went out to them at the doorway and shut the door behind him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:7 - and said, “Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:8 - “Now behold, 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 [fn]shelter of my roof.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - But they said, “Step aside.” Furthermore, they said, “This one came to sojourn, and already he is persistently acting like a judge; now we will treat you more wickedly than them.” So they pressed hard against [fn]Lot and stepped up to break the door.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:10 - But the men reached out their [fn]hands and brought Lot into the house [fn]with them and shut the door.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:11 - And they [fn]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.
(Mat 11:23, 24; Luk 17:28–32 )

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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;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:13 - for we are about to destroy this place because their outcry has become great before Yahweh, so Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:14 - And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who [fn]were to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city.” But he appeared to his sons-in-law [fn]to be jesting.

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Now at the [fn]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 [fn]punishment of the city.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:16 - But he hesitated. So the men seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the [fn]hands of his two daughters, for the compassion of Yahweh was upon him; and they brought him out and put him outside the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:17 - Now it happened, as they brought them outside, [fn]one said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay [fn]anywhere in the valley; escape to the [fn]mountains, lest you be swept away.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:18 - But Lot said to them, “Oh no, my lords!

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:19 - “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 [fn]mountains, lest calamity overtake me and I die;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20 - now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) [fn]that my life may be preserved.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:21 - And he said to him, “Behold, I grant you this [fn]request also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22 - “Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the city was called [fn]Zoar.

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The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:24 - And Yahweh rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh out of heaven,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25 - and He overthrew those cities, and all the [fn]valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:26 - Then his wife, from behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

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Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before Yahweh;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:28 - and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the [fn]valley, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a [fn]furnace.

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Thus it happened, when God destroyed the cities of the [fn]valley, that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Lot and His Daughters

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And Lot went up from Zoar and [fn]stayed in the [fn]mountains, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to [fn]stay in Zoar; and he [fn]stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:31 - Then the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man [fn]on earth to come in to us after the manner of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:32 - “Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him that we may preserve our seed through our father.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:33 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:34 - 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.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:35 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:36 - Thus both the daughters of Lot conceived by their father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:37 - And the firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:38 - As for the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the [fn]sons of Ammon to this day.
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LSB Footnotes
Lit bowed himself
Lit nose
Or without exception; lit from every end
Have intercourse
Lit shadow
Lit the man, against Lot
Lit hand
Lit to
Lit smote
Or had married; lit were taking
Lit like one who was jesting
Lit rising
Or iniquity
Lit hand
Lit he
Lit in all the circle
Lit mountain
Lit mountain
Lit and my soul will live
Lit thing
Lit small
Lit circle
Lit circle
Lit kiln
Lit circle
Lit dwelt
Lit mountain
Lit dwell
Lit dwelt
Or in the land
Heb Bene-Ammon
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