Genesis 19

¹The two angels came to Sodom in the evening , and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom . When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth

²and said , My lords , please turn aside to your servant’s house and spend the night and wash your feet . Then you may rise up early and go on your way . They said , No ; we will spend the night in the town square .

³But he pressed them strongly ; so they turned aside to him and entered his house . And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread , and they ate .

⁴But before they lay down , the men of the city , the men of Sodom , both young and old , all the people to the last man , surrounded the house .

⁵And they called to Lot , Where are the men who came to you tonight ? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.

⁶Lot went out to the men at the entrance , shut the door after him,

⁷and said , I beg you, my brothers , do not act so wickedly .

⁸Behold , I have two daughters who have not known any man . Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please . Only do nothing to these men , for they have come under the shelter of my roof .

⁹But they said , Stand back ! And they said , This fellow came to sojourn , and he has become the judge ! Now we will deal worse with you than with them. Then they pressed hard against the man Lot , and drew near to break the door down .

¹⁰But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them and shut the door .

¹¹And they struck with blindness the men who were at the entrance of the house , both small and great , so that they wore themselves out groping for the door .

¹²Then the men said to Lot , Have you anyone else here ? Sons-in-law , sons , daughters , or anyone you have in the city , bring them out of the place .

¹³For we are about to destroy this place , because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.

¹⁴So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law , who were to marry his daughters , Up ! Get out of this place , for the Lord is about to destroy the city . But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting .

¹⁵As morning dawned , the angels urged Lot , saying , Up ! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here , lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city .

¹⁶But he lingered . So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand , the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city .

¹⁷And as they brought them out , one said , Escape for your life . Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley . Escape to the hills , lest you be swept away .

¹⁸And Lot said to them, Oh , no , my lords .

¹⁹Behold , your servant has found favor in your sight , and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life . But I cannot escape to the hills , lest the disaster overtake me and I die .

²⁰Behold , this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one . Let me escape there —is it not a little one ?—and my life will be saved !

²¹He said to him, Behold , I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken .

²²Escape there quickly , for I can do nothing till you arrive there . Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar .

²³The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar .

²⁴Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven .

²⁵And he overthrew those cities , and all the valley , and all the inhabitants of the cities , and what grew on the ground .

²⁶But Lot’s wife , behind him, looked back , and she became a pillar of salt .

²⁷And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord.

²⁸And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley , and he looked and, behold , the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace .

²⁹So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley , God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived .

³⁰Now Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the hills with his two daughters , for he was afraid to live in Zoar . So he lived in a cave with his two daughters .

³¹And the firstborn said to the younger , Our father is old , and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth .

³²Come , let us make our father drink wine , and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father .

³³So they made their father drink wine that night . And the firstborn went in and lay with her father . He did not know when she lay down or when she arose .

³⁴The next day , the firstborn said to the younger , Behold , I lay last night with my father . Let us make him drink wine tonight also . Then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father .

³⁵So they made their father drink wine that night also . And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose .

³⁶Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father .

³⁷The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab . He is the father of the Moabites to this day .

³⁸The younger also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi . He is the father of the Ammonites to this day .