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Genesis 19: 1 to 38

1 And the two messengers came to Sodom at even. And Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed down, the face toward the ground,
2 and he said, "Behold now, my lords, turn in, I ask you, into your servant's house, and rest, and wash your feet; and youy shall rise up early, and go on your way." And they said, "No; but we will pass the night in the open place."
3 And he urged them so much they turned in unto him, and entered into his house. And he made them a repast of baked unleavened cakes; and they ate.
4 Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house from the youngest to the oldest -- all the people from every quarter.
5 And they called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men that have come in to you to-night? Bring them out to us that we may experience them."
6 And Lot went out the entrance to them, and shut the door after him,
7 and said, "I ask you, my brothers, do not act wickedly!"
8 "Look, I have two daughters who have not experienced a man: let me bring them out to you now; and do to them as you please: only, to these men do nothing; for they come under the shadow of my roof."
9 And they said, "Get Back!" And they spoke again, "This one is here by our sufferance, and he now acts like a master? Now we will deal worse with you than with them." And they pressed hard on the man -- on Lot; and drew near to break the door.
10 And the men stretched out their hands, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
11 And they struck the men at the door with blinding light, from the smallest to the greatest; and they struggled to find the entrance.
12 And the men said to Lot, "Whom have you here besides? a son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and all you have in the city -- bring them out of the place.
13 For we are going to destroy this place, because the outcry against them is great before Yahweh, and Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."
14 And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, " Get up, go out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed out of his mind to his sons-in-law.
15 And as the dawn arose, the messengers urged Lot, saying, "Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are present, unless you too perish in the iniquity of the city."
16 And as he hesitated, the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they led him out, and set him without the city.
17 So it was when they had brought them outside, that he said, "Escape for thy life: look not behind yourself, neither stay anywhere in the plain: escape to the mountain, so you do not perish."
18 And Lot said to them, "Please not that, my Lords;
19 behold now, your servant has found favour in your eyes, and you have magnified your goodness, which you have shown to me in preserving my soul alive; but I cannot escape to the mountain because a calamity shall befall me and I die.
20 Look there to that nearby city, it is so small: I beg you, let me escape there -- Is it not a small place? -- and my soul shall live."
21 And he said to him, "Very well, I have accepted your request on this also, I will not overthrow the city you have spoken of.
22 Hurry, escape there; for I cannot do anything until you get there. Therefore the name of the city is called Smallville."
23 The sun rose upon the earth when Lot came to Smallville.
24 And Yahweh rained on Sodom and Gomorrah his sulphurous fire out of heaven,
25 and overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew upon the ground.
26 And his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 In the morning Father-of-Multitudes hurried back to the place where he had stood before Yahweh;
28 and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and watched a smoke rising up from the land as the fumes from a kiln.
29 So, after Elohim destroyed the cities of the plain, that Elohim was mindful of Father-of-Multitudes, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

30 And Lot went up from Smallville, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Smallville. And he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.
31 And the first-born said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the land to come in to us as is the custom of all the earth:
32 come, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve descendents for our father."
33 And they gave their father wine to drink that night. And the first-born went in, and lay with her father, and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising.
34 So again on the next day the first-born said to the younger, "See, I lay last night with my father: let us give him wine to drink to-night also, and you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve descendents for our father."
35 And they gave their father wine to drink that night also. And the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising.
36 And both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
37 And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab, From-My-Father: he is the ancestor of the Moabites to this day.
38 And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi, Son-of-My-Relative; he is the ancestor of the children of Ammon to this day.

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