Genesis 19 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

The Doom of Sodom

Gen 19:1The two angels came to Sodom in the evening; and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and bowed himself with his face to the earth,

Gen 19:2

Gen 19:2and said, "My lords, turn aside, I pray you, to your servant's house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise up early and go on your way." They said, "No; we will spend the night in the street."

Gen 19:3

Gen 19:3But he urged them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

Gen 19:4

Gen 19:4But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house;

Gen 19:5

Gen 19:5and they called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them."

Gen 19:6

Gen 19:6Lot went out of the door to the men, shut the door after him,

Gen 19:7

Gen 19:7and said, "I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.

Gen 19:8

Gen 19:8Behold, I have two daughters who have not known man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please; only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof."

Gen 19:9

Gen 19:9But they said, "Stand back!" And they said, "This fellow came to sojourn, and he would play the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them." Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.

Gen 19:10

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

Gen 19:11

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

(Mat 11:23, 24; Luk 17:28–32 )

Gen 19:12

Gen 19:12Then the men said to Lot, "Have you any one else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or any one you have in the city, bring them out of the place;

Gen 19:13

Gen 19:13for we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it."

Gen 19:14

Gen 19:14So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, "Up, get out of this place; for the LORD is about to destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

Gen 19:15

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

Gen 19:16

Gen 19:16But he lingered; so the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him forth and set him outside the city.

Gen 19:17

Gen 19:17And when they had brought them forth, they said, "Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley; flee to the hills, lest you be consumed."

Gen 19:18

Gen 19:18And Lot said to them, "Oh, no, my lords;

Gen 19:19

Gen 19:19behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life; but I cannot flee to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me, and I die.

Gen 19:20

Gen 19:20Behold, yonder city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there--is it not a little one?--and my life will be saved!"

Gen 19:21

Gen 19:21He said to him, "Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

Gen 19:22

Gen 19:22Make haste, escape there; for I can do nothing till you arrive there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zo'ar.

Gen 19:23

Gen 19:23The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zo'ar.

Gen 19:24

Gen 19:24Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomor'rah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

Gen 19:25

Gen 19:25and he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

Gen 19:26

Gen 19:26But Lot's wife behind him looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Gen 19:27

Gen 19:27And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD;

Gen 19:28

Gen 19:28and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomor'rah and toward all the land of the valley, and beheld, and lo, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.

Gen 19:29

Gen 19:29So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

Lot Is Debased

Gen 19:30

Gen 19:30Now Lot went up out of Zo'ar, and dwelt in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to dwell in Zo'ar; so he dwelt in a cave with his two daughters.

Gen 19:31

Gen 19:31And the first-born said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.

Gen 19:32

Gen 19:32Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father."

Gen 19:33

Gen 19:33So they made their father drink wine that night; and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

Gen 19:34

Gen 19:34And on the next day, the first-born said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father."

Gen 19:35

Gen 19:35So 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.

Gen 19:36

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

Gen 19:37

Gen 19:37The first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

Gen 19:38

Gen 19:38The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites to this day.

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Genesis 19 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

The Doom of Sodom

Lot Is Debased

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