Genesis 19 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

The Doom of Sodom

Gen 19:1The two angels came to Sedom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sedom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the eretz,

Gen 19:2

Gen 19:2and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you will rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."

Gen 19:3

Gen 19:3He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked matzah, and they ate.

Gen 19:4

Gen 19:4But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sedom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

Gen 19:5

Gen 19:5They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them."

Gen 19:6

Gen 19:6Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.

Gen 19:7

Gen 19:7He said, "Please, my brothers, don't act so wickedly.

Gen 19:8

Gen 19:8See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes. Only don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."

Gen 19:9

Gen 19:9They said, "Stand back!" They said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.

Gen 19:10

Gen 19:10But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

Gen 19:11

Gen 19:11They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

(Mat 11:23, 24; Luk 17:28–32 )

Gen 19:12

Gen 19:12The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:

Gen 19:13

Gen 19:13for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is grown great before the LORD. The LORD has sent us to destroy it."

Gen 19:14

Gen 19:14Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

Gen 19:15

Gen 19:15When the morning arose, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."

Gen 19:16

Gen 19:16But he lingered; and the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, the LORD being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.

Gen 19:17

Gen 19:17It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, neither stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed!"

Gen 19:18

Gen 19:18Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, my lord.

Gen 19:19

Gen 19:19See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

Gen 19:20

Gen 19:20See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."

Gen 19:21

Gen 19:21He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

Gen 19:22

Gen 19:22Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Tzo`ar.

Gen 19:23

Gen 19:23The sun was risen on the eretz when Lot came to Tzo`ar.

Gen 19:24

Gen 19:24Then the LORD rained on Sedom and on `Amorah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of the sky.

Gen 19:25

Gen 19:25He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

Gen 19:26

Gen 19:26But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Gen 19:27

Gen 19:27Avraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

Gen 19:28

Gen 19:28He looked toward Sedom and `Amorah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

Gen 19:29

Gen 19:29It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Avraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Lot Is Debased

Gen 19:30

Gen 19:30Lot went up out of Tzo`ar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Tzo`ar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.

Gen 19:31

Gen 19:31The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the eretz to come in to us after the manner of all the eretz.

Gen 19:32

Gen 19:32Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."

Gen 19:33

Gen 19:33They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Gen 19:34

Gen 19:34It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."

Gen 19:35

Gen 19:35They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger arose, and lay with him. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Gen 19:36

Gen 19:36Thus both of Lot's daughters were with child by their father.

Gen 19:37

Gen 19:37The firstborn bore a son, and named him Mo'av. The same is the father of the Mo`avim to this day.

Gen 19:38

Gen 19:38The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben-`Ammi. The same is the father of the children of `Ammon to this day.

The Hebrew Names Version is based off the World English Bible, an update of the American Standard Version of 1901. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

Genesis 19 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

The Doom of Sodom

Lot Is Debased

Pericope