Genesis:19:1-25

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ylt @Genesis:19:1 @And two of the messengers come towards Sodom at even , and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom , and Lot seeth , and riseth to meet them , and boweth himself -- face to the earth , ylt @Genesis:19:2 @and he saith , 'Lo , I pray you , my lords , turn aside , I pray you , unto the house of your servant , and lodge , and wash your feet -- then ye have risen early and gone on your way ;' and they say , 'Nay , but in the broad place we do lodge .' ylt @Genesis:19:3 @And he presseth on them greatly , and they turn aside unto him , and come in unto his house ; and he maketh for them a banquet , and hath baked unleavened things ; and they do eat . ylt @Genesis:19:4 @Before they lie down , the men of the city -- men of Sodom -- have come round about against the house , from young even unto aged , all the people from the extremity ; ylt @Genesis:19:5 @and they call unto Lot and say to him , 'Where [are ] the men who have come in unto thee to-night ? bring them out unto us , and we know them .' ylt @Genesis:19:6 @And Lot goeth out unto them , to the opening , and the door hath shut behind him , ylt @Genesis:19:7 @and saith , 'Do not , I pray you , my brethren , do evil ; ylt @Genesis:19:8 @lo , I pray you , I have two daughters , who have not known any one ; let me , I pray you , bring them out unto you , and do to them as [is ] good in your eyes ; only to these men do not anything , for therefore have they come in within the shadow of my roof .' ylt @Genesis:19:9 @And they say , 'Come nigh hither ;' they say also , 'This one hath come in to sojourn , and he certainly judgeth ! now , we do evil to thee more than [to ] them ;' and they press against the man , against Lot greatly , and come nigh to break the door . ylt @Genesis:19:10 @And the men put forth their hand , and bring in Lot unto them , into the house , and have shut the door ; ylt @Genesis:19:11 @and the men who [are ] at the opening of the house they have smitten with blindness , from small even unto great , and they weary themselves to find the opening . ylt @Genesis:19:12 @And the men say unto Lot , 'Whom hast thou here still ? son-in-law , thy sons also , and thy daughters , and all whom thou hast in the city , bring out from this place ; ylt @Genesis:19:13 @for we are destroying this place , for their cry hath been great [before ] the face of Jehovah , and Jehovah doth send us to destroy it .' ylt @Genesis:19:14 @And Lot goeth out , and speaketh unto his sons-in-law , those taking his daughters , and saith , 'Rise , go out from this place , for Jehovah is destroying the city ;' and he is as [one ] mocking in the eyes of his sons-in-law . ylt @Genesis:19:15 @And when the dawn hath ascended , then the messengers press upon Lot , saying , 'Rise , take thy wife , and thy two daughters who are found present , lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city .' ylt @Genesis:19:16 @And he lingereth , and the men lay hold on his hand , and on the hand of his wife , and on the hand of his two daughters , through the mercy of Jehovah unto him , and they bring him out , and cause him to rest without the city . ylt @Genesis:19:17 @And it cometh to pass when he hath brought them out without , that he saith , 'Escape for thy life ; look not expectingly behind thee , nor stand thou in all the circuit ; to the mountain escape , lest thou be consumed .' ylt @Genesis:19:18 @And Lot saith unto them , 'Not [so ], I pray thee , my lord ; ylt @Genesis:19:19 @lo , I pray thee , thy servant hath found grace in thine eyes , and thou dost make great thy kindness which thou hast done with me by saving my life , and I am unable to escape to the mountain , lest the evil cleave [to ] me , and I have died ; ylt @Genesis:19:20 @lo , I pray thee , this city [is ] near to flee thither , and it [is ] little ; let me escape , I pray thee , thither , (is it not little ?) and my soul doth live .' ylt @Genesis:19:21 @And he saith unto him , 'Lo , I have accepted thy face also for this thing , without overthrowing the city [for ] which thou hast spoken ; ylt @Genesis:19:22 @haste , escape thither , for I am not able to do anything till thine entering thither ;' therefore hath he calleth the name of the city Zoar . ylt @Genesis:19:23 @The sun hath gone out on the earth , and Lot hath entered into Zoar , ylt @Genesis:19:24 @and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah , from the heavens ; ylt @Genesis:19:25 @and He overthroweth these cities , and all the circuit , and all the inhabitants of the cities , and that which is shooting up from the ground .

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