1 And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom; and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth;
2 and he said, “I beseech you, my lords, come into your servant’s house and stay the night, and wash your feet, and you can rise up early and go on your way. And they said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.”
3 And he urged them greatly; and they went with him into his house; and he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house; both young and old, all the people from every quarter;
5 and they called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men that came to your house this night? bring them out to us, that we may know them.”
6 And Lot went out to them and shut the door behind him.
7 And he said, “Please, my brothers, don’t be so wicked.
8 See now, I have two daughters that have not known a man; let me bring them out to you, and you can do whatever you want to them: but leave my guests alone, for they have entered into my home.”
9 And they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This one fellow came in to live among us and now he wants to play the judge; now will we deal worse with him than with his guests!” And they shoved Lot out of the way and rushed to break down the door.
10 But the men grabbed Lot and pulled him back into the house, and shut the door.
11 And they struck the men at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they could not to find the door.
12 And the men said to Lot, “If there is anyone else here, sons-in-law, sons and daughters, any friends or relatives you know; bring them out of the city:
13 for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against it has grown great before the LORD; and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.”
14 And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law who married his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place; for the LORD will destroy the city!” but they did not take him seriously.
15 And when the morning came, the angels hastened Lot, saying, “Quickly, take your wife and your two daughters that are here, or you will be destroyed in the iniquity of the city.”
16 But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hand of his two daughters, the LORD being merciful unto him; and they brought him out, and set him outside the city.
17 After they brought him out, they said “Run for your life and don’t look back! Don’t stop anywhere in the Plain (of the Jordan); escape to the mountain, or you will be destroyed.”
18 And Lot said unto them, “Please not to the mountain, my lord;
19 now that your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me mercy by saving my life; may I not escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die:
20 Look there, that city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape to there — is it not small? — and my soul shall live.”
21 And he said to him, “See, I have accepted your request, and I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
22 Hurry and escape there; for I cannot do anything until you are there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar[f].
23 The sun had just risen upon the earth when Lot entered the city of Zoar.
24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
25 and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
26 But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord;
28 and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the destruction, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
31 And the first-born said unto the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth;
32 come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.”
33 And they made their father drink wine that night; and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said unto the younger, “Last night I lay with my father: let us make him drink wine again tonight; and you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.”
35 And they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
37 And the first-born bare a son, and called his name Moab; the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
[8] Or, for therefore
[14] Or, were to marry
[15] Or, punishment
[18] Or, O Lord
[19] Or, the evil
[22] That is, Little. See verse 20; 14:8.