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Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed

19. The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. "My lords," he said, "please turn aside to your servant's house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning." "No," they answered, "we will spend the night in the square."

But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. Before they had gone to bed, all the man every part of the city of Sodom- both young and old-surround the house. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight?" Bring them out to us that we can have sex with them."

Lot went outside to meet them, and shut the door behind him and said, "No, my friend. don't do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don't do anything to these men, for they have com under the protection of my roof." "Get out of our way," they replied. And they said, "This fellow came here as an alien, and now he wants to play the judge! we'll treat you worse than them." They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door. But the men inside reached and pulled Lot back into house and shut the door. Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.

The two men said to Lot, "Do you have anyone else here-son's in law, sons and daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it." So Lot went out to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, "Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

with the coming of dawn, the angel urged Lot, saying, "Hurry take your wife and two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished." When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and hands of his wife and of his two daughters and let them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them. As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, "Flee for your lives! Don't look back, and don't stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountain or you will be swept away!"

But Lot said to them, "No, my Lords, please! your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can't flee to the mountains; this disaster will outtake me, and I'll die. Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small, isn't it? Then my life will be spared." He said to him, "Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of. But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it." (That is why the town was called Zoal.)

 By the yime when reached Zoal, the sun has risedn over the land. Then the Lord rained down burning sulfer on Sodom and Gomorrah-from the Lord out of the heaven. Thus he overthrew those cities and entire plain, including all those living in the cities-and also the vegetation in the land. But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. Early the next morning Abraham got up and return to the place where he had stood before the Lord. He look down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace. So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the castrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.        

Lot and his daughters

Lot and his two daughters left Zoal. He and his two daughters lived in the cave. One day the old daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man around here to lie with us, as is the custom all over the earth. Let's get our father to drink wine and then lie with him and preserve our family line through our father." So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went and lay with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up. So both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father. The old daughter had a son, and she named him Moab ; He is the father of the Moabites of today. The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi ; He is the father of the Ammonites of today.