1The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, while Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
2He said, “Behold now, my lords, please turn aside to the house of your servant, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” But they said, “No, for we will spend the night in the square.”
3But he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and came into his house. He made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
4Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, from young to old, all the people from every quarter.
5They called out to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.”
6Lot went out to them at the doorway and shut the door behind him,
7and said, “Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.
8Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known a man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as is good in your eyes; only do nothing to these men, since they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
9But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This one came to sojourn, and now he acts as judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them.” And they pressed hard against the man, against Lot, and drew near to break down the door.
10But the men reached out their hand and brought Lot in to them, into the house, and shut the door.
11And they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, from small to great, so that they wore themselves out trying to find the doorway.
12Then the men said to Lot, “Who else do you have here? A son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city—bring them out of the place,
13for we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has grown great before the face of Yahweh, and Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.”
14So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, “Rise, get out of this place, for Yahweh is about to destroy the city.” But in the eyes of his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking.
15As dawn was breaking, the angels urged Lot on, saying, “Rise, take your wife and your two daughters who are found here, lest you be swept away in the iniquity of the city.”
16But he lingered, so the men seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, in the compassion of Yahweh upon him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
17And when they had brought them outside, one said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stop anywhere in the plain. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.”
18But Lot said to them, “No, please, my Lord!
19Behold now, your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have magnified your loyal love, which you have shown to me, in keeping my life alive. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.
20Behold now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a small one. Let me escape there—is it not a small one?—and my life will be preserved.”
21And he said to him, “Behold, I have granted you favor in this matter as well, not to overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
22Hurry, escape there, for I can do nothing until you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
23The sun had risen over the land when Lot came to Zoar.
24Then Yahweh rained down on Sodom and on Gomorrah brimstone and fire—from Yahweh, out of the heavens.
25And he overthrew those cities and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew from the ground.
26But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
27Abraham rose early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the face of Yahweh,
28and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.
29So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out from the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.
30Now Lot went up from Zoar and dwelt in the hills, and his two daughters with him, for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar; and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
31And 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 with him, that we may preserve offspring alive from our father.”
33So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.
34And it happened on the next day that the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also; then go in, lie with him, that we may preserve offspring alive from our father.”
35So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger got up and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.
36Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.
37And the firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of Moab to this day.
38And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day.
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