GENESIS Chapter 19
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19:1 When the two
angels came to Sodom that evening, Lot was sitting at the city gate. As soon
as he saw them, he got up and went to meet them. He bowed down before them |
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19:2 and said,
"Sirs, I am here to serve you. Please come to my house. You can wash
your feet and spend the night. In the morning you can get up early and go on
your way." But they answered, "No, we will spend the night here in
the city square." |
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19:3 He kept on
urging them, and finally they went with him to his house. Lot ordered his
servants to bake some bread and prepare a fine meal for the guests. When it
was ready, they ate it. |
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19:4 Before the
guests went to bed, the men of Sodom surrounded the house. All the men of the
city, both young and old, were there. |
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19:5 They called
out to Lot and asked, "Where are the men who came to stay with you
tonight? Bring them out to us!" The men of Sodom wanted to have sex with
them. |
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19:6 Lot went
outside and closed the door behind him. |
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19:7 He said to
them, "Friends, I beg you, don't do such a wicked thing! |
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19:8 Look, I have
two daughters who are still virgins. Let me bring them out to you, and you
can do whatever you want with them. But don't do anything to these men; they
are guests in my house, and I must protect them." |
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19:9 But they said,
"Get out of our way, you foreigner! Who are you to tell us what to do?
Out of our way, or we will treat you worse than them." They pushed Lot
back and moved up to break down the door. |
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19:10 But the two
men inside reached out, pulled Lot back into the house, and shut the door. |
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19:11 Then they
struck all the men outside with blindness, so that they couldn't find the
door. |
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19:12 The two men
said to Lot, "If you have anyone else here---sons, daughters,
sons-in-law, or any other relatives living in the city---get them out of
here, |
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19:13 because we are
going to destroy this place. The LORD has heard the terrible accusations
against these people and has sent us to destroy Sodom." |
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19:14 Then Lot went
to the men that his daughters were going to marry, and said, "Hurry up
and get out of here; the LORD is going to destroy this place." But they
thought he was joking. |
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19:15 At dawn the
angels tried to make Lot hurry. "Quick!" they said. "Take your
wife and your two daughters and get out, so that you will not lose your lives
when the city is destroyed." |
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19:16 Lot hesitated.
The LORD, however, had pity on him; so the men took him, his wife, and his
two daughters by the hand and led them out of the city. |
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19:17 Then one of
the angels said, "Run for your lives! Don't look back and don't stop in
the valley. Run to the hills, so that you won't be killed." |
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19:18 But Lot
answered, "No, please don't make us do that, sir. |
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19:19 You have done
me a great favor and saved my life. But the hills are too far away; the
disaster will overtake me, and I will die before I get there. |
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19:20 Do you see
that little town? It is near enough. Let me go over there---you can see it is
just a small place---and I will be safe." |
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19:21 He answered,
"All right, I agree. I won't destroy that town. |
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19:22 Hurry! Run! I
can't do anything until you get there." Because Lot called it small, the
town was named Zoar. |
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19:23 The sun was
rising when Lot reached Zoar. |
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19:24 Suddenly the
LORD rained burning sulfur on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah |
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19:25 and destroyed
them and the whole valley, along with all the people there and everything
that grew on the land. |
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19:26 But Lot's wife
looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt. |
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19:27 Early the next
morning Abraham hurried to the place where he had stood in the presence of
the LORD. |
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19:28 He looked down
at Sodom and Gomorrah and the whole valley and saw smoke rising from the
land, like smoke from a huge furnace. |
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19:29 But when God
destroyed the cities of the valley where Lot was living, he kept Abraham in
mind and allowed Lot to escape to safety. |
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19:30 Because Lot
was afraid to stay in Zoar, he and his two
daughters moved up into the hills and lived in a cave. |
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19:31 The older
daughter said to her sister, "Our father is getting old, and there are
no men in the whole world to marry us so that we can have children. |
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19:32 Come on, let's
get our father drunk, so that we can sleep with him and have children by
him." |
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19:33
That night they gave him wine to drink, and the older daughter had intercourse with him. But he
was so drunk that he didn't know it. |
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19:34 The next day
the older daughter said to her sister, "I slept with him last night; now
let's get him drunk again tonight, and you sleep with him. Then each of us
will have a child by our father." |
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19:35 So that night
they got him drunk, and the younger daughter had intercourse with him. Again
he was so drunk that he didn't know it. |
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19:36 In this way
both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their own father. |
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19:37 The older
daughter had a son, whom she named Moab. He was the ancestor of the
present-day Moabites. |
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19:38 The younger
daughter also had a son, whom she named Benammi. He
was the ancestor of the present-day Ammonites. |
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