Genesis Chapter 19
1 Two angels came to Sodom at evening as Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.
2 He said, now my lords, please come in to your servant's house and stay all night and wash your feet. Then rise early and go your way. They said, No. We will stay in the street.
3 But he urged them and so they turned and entered into his house. He made a feast and baked unleavened bread for them and they ate.
4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both old and young, all the people from every quarter.
5 They called to Lot and said to him, Where are the men who came to you this night? Bring them out to us so that we may know them.
6 Lot went out to them and shut the door after him.
7 He said, I ask you brothers, do not act wickedly.
8 I have two daughters who have not known man. I ask you, let me bring them out to you and you do to them as you see fit. But do nothing to these men for this is why they came under the shadow of my roof.
9 But they said, Stand back. They said, This one came in to stay and must he judge always? Now we will deal worse with you than with them. Then they pressed hard upon Lot and nearly broke the door.
10 But the men put out their hands and pulled Lot into the house to them and shut the door.
11 They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they could not find the door.
12 The men said to Lot, Have you anyone here besides yourself? Bring your sons in law and your sons and your daughters and whatever you have in the city, bring them out of this place.
13 For we will destroy this place because great is the cry of them before the face of the Lord. The Lord has sent us to destroy it.
14 Lot spoke with his sons in law who married his daughters and said, Get out of this place for the Lord will destroy this city. But it seemed to his sons in law that he was mocking.
15 When the dawn rose, the angels hurried Lot saying, Rise up. Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
16 He lingered, the angel laid hold on him and on his wife and on his two daughters, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him forth and set him outside the city.
17 When they brought him outside, He said, Escape for your life. Do not look behind you nor stay in all the plain. Escape to the mountain lest you be consumed.
18 Lot said to them, Oh no my lord,
19 Your servant has found grace in your sight and you have magnified your mercy that you have shown to me in saving my life. I cannot escape to the mountain lest some evil take me and I die.
20 See, this city is near to flee to and it is little. Let me escape there and my soul will live.
21 He said to him, See, I have accepted you concerning this also so that I will not overthrow this city about which you have spoken.
22 Hurry and escape there. For I cannot do anything until you have go there. The name of the city was Zoar.
23 The sun had risen upon the earth and Lot entered into Zoar.
24 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of the heavens.
25 He overthrew those cities and all the plain and all the inhabitants of the cities and what grew upon the ground.
26 But his wife looked back behind him and she became a pillar of salt.
27 Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord.
28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the lands of the plain and saw the smoke of the country went up like the smoke of a furnace.
29 When God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
30 Lot left Zoar and lived on the mountain and his two daughters with him. For he feared to live in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.
31 The firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old and there is no man on the earth to come in to us in all the earth.
32 Come. Let us make our father drink wine and we will lie with him so that we may preserve descendants for our father.
33 They made their father drink wine that night and the firstborn went in and lay with her father. But he did not notice when she lay down or when she arose.
34 The next day, the firstborn said to the younger, Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine this night also and you go in and lie down with him so that we may preserve descendants of our father.
35 They made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him and he did not notice when she lay down nor when she arose.
36 So both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
37 The firstborn bore a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.
38 The younger also bore a son and named him Benammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.