Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening; and Lot was sitting in the gateway of Sodom; and when Lot saw them, he rose up to meet them; and he bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 And he said, Come now, my lords, turn aside, if you will, to your servant's house, and stay the night, and wash your feet; then you can rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, No; but we will spend the night in the street. 3 But he urged them strongly; so they turned aside to him, and entered his house; and he made a feast* for them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 4 They had not yet lain down when the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young men and old, all the people, even from the remotest part. 5 And they shouted to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we may know them. 6 Then Lot went out to them at the entrance, and shut the inner door behind him. 7 And he said, My brothers, I beg you not to act so wickedly. 8 Look now, I have two daughters who have not known men; let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them whatever seems good in your eyes; only do nothing to these men, because they have come under the shelter of my roof. 9 And they said, Stand back. And they said, The fellow comes in as a settler, and he becomes a judge! Now we will do more harm to you than to them. And they pressed hard on the man, on Lot, and came near to breaking down the inner door. 10 But the men reached out their hands, and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the inner door. 11 And they struck the men who were at the entrance of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they exhausted themselves trying to find the entrance. * lit drinking

12 Then the men said to Lot, What others have you here? Bring out of this place any son-in-law, and your Sons, and your daughters, and whoever you have in the city; 13 for we are going to destroy this place, because their cry has been loud before Yehowah; and Yehowah has sent us to destroy it. l4 So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to take his daughters, and said, Hurry up, get out of this place, for Yehowah is going to destroy the city. But in the eyes of his sons-in-law he was like one who was joking. 15 And when dawn came, the angels urged Lot, and said, Come on, take your wife and your two daughters who are with you here, or else you will be consumed in the iniquity of the city. 16 But he lingered; and the men grasped his hand, and his wife's hand, and the hands of his two daughters, because of Yehowah's compassion for him; and they brought him out and put him outside the city. 17 And when they had brought them outside, he said, Escape for your life; neither look behind you, nor anywhere in the Plain; escape to the mountains, or else you will be consumed. 18 But Lot said to them, Oh, not so, my Lord; 19 see now, your servant has found favour in your eyes, and you have magnified your mercy which you have shown to me in causing me to live; but I cannot escape to the mountains, in case the evil clings to me and I die. 20 See now, there is a city nearby to flee to, and it is small; let me escape to it (is it not small?), so that I may live. 21 Then he said to him, Very well, I yield to you concerning this also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. 22 Make haste, escape to it; for I cannot do anything until you come to it. Therefore he named the city Zoar.* 23 The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar. 24 And Yehowah rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yehowah out of heaven; 25 and he overthrew these cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and whatever was growing on the ground. 26 But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. * That is Small

27 Now early in the morning Abraham went up to the place where he had stood before Yehowah; 28 and he looked out towards Sodom and Gomorrah and towards all the land of the Plain, and then he saw that the smoke of the land went up like smoke from a furnace.

29 And when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot away from the midst of the devastation, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.

30 Then Lot went up from Zoar, and lived in the mountains with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar; and he lived in a cave with his two daughters. 31 And the firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to come in to us, according to the way of all the earth. 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie down with him so that we may have children by our father. 33 So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay down with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or when she got up. 34 Then on the next day the firstborn said to the younger, See, last night I lay down with my father; let us make him drink wine again tonight, and you go in and lie down with him, so that we may have children by our father. 35 So they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger went and lay down with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she got up. 36 And the two daughters of Lot conceived by their father. 37 And the firstborn gave birth to a son, whom she named Moab; he is the father of present-day Moab. 38 And the younger also gave birth to a son, whom she named Ben-ammi; he is the father of the present-day Ammonites.