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And LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre ,
as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day .
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And he lifted up his eyes and looked ,
and ,
lo ,
three men stood by him .
And when he saw them ,
he ran to meet them from the tent door ,
and bowed himself to the earth ,
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and said ,
My lord ,
if now I have found favor in thy sight ,
pass not away ,
I pray thee ,
from thy servant .
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Let now a little water be fetched ,
and wash your feet ,
and rest yourselves under the tree .
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And I will fetch a morsel of bread ,
and strengthen ye your heart .
After that ye shall pass on ,
inasmuch as ye came to your servant .
And they said ,
Do so as thou have said .
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And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah ,
and said ,
Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal ,
knead it ,
and make cakes .
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And Abraham ran to the herd ,
and fetched a calf tender and good ,
and gave it to the servant .
And he hastened to dress it .
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And he took butter ,
and milk ,
and the calf which he had dressed ,
and set it before them .
And he stood by them under the tree ,
and they ate .
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And they said to him ,
Where is Sarah thy wife ?
And he said ,
Behold ,
in the tent .
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And he said ,
I will certainly return to thee when the season comes round ,
and ,
lo ,
Sarah thy wife shall have a son .
And Sarah heard in the tent door ,
which was behind him .
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Now Abraham and Sarah were old , [
and ]
well stricken in age .
It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women .
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And Sarah laughed within herself ,
saying ,
After I have become old shall I have pleasure ,
my lord also being old ?
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And LORD said to Abraham ,
Why did Sarah laugh ,
saying ,
Shall I who am old certainly bear a child ?
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Is anything too hard for LORD ?
At the set time I will return to thee ,
when the season comes round ,
and Sarah shall have a son .
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Then Sarah denied ,
saying ,
I did not laugh ,
for she was afraid .
And he said ,
No ,
but thou did laugh .
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And the men rose up from there ,
and looked toward Sodom .
And Abraham went with them to bring them on the way .
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And LORD said ,
Shall I hide from Abraham that which I do ,
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since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation ,
and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him ?
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For I have known him ,
to the end that he may command his children and his household after him ,
that they may keep the way of LORD ,
to do righteousness and justice ,
to the end that LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoke
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And LORD said ,
Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great ,
and because their sin is very grievous ,
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I will go down now ,
and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it ,
which comes to me .
And if not ,
I will know .
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And the men turned from there ,
and went toward Sodom ,
but Abraham yet stood before LORD .
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And Abraham drew near ,
and said ,
Will thou consume righteous men with wicked men ?
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Perhaps there are fifty righteous men within the city .
Will thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous men that are in it ?
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That be far from thee to do after this manner ,
to slay a righteous man with a wicked man ,
that so the righteous man should be as the wicked man .
Far be it from thee .
Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right ?
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And LORD said ,
If I find in Sodom fifty righteous men within the city ,
then I will spare all the place for their sake .
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And Abraham answered and said ,
Behold now ,
I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord ,
who am but dust and ashes .
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Perhaps there shall lack five of the fifty righteous men .
Will thou destroy all the city for lack of five ?
And he said ,
I will not destroy it ,
if I find there forty-five .
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And he spoke to him yet again ,
and said ,
Perhaps there shall be forty found there .
And he said ,
I will not do it for the forty '
s sake .
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And he said ,
Oh let not the Lord be angry ,
and I will speak .
Perhaps there shall be thirty found there .
And he said ,
I will not do it ,
if I find thirty there .
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And he said ,
Behold now ,
I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord .
Perhaps there shall be twenty found there .
And he said ,
I will not destroy it for the twenty '
s sake .
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And he said ,
Oh let not the Lord be angry ,
and I will speak yet but this once .
Perhaps ten shall be found there .
And he said ,
I will not destroy it for the ten '
s sake .
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And LORD went his way as soon as he had left off conversing with Abraham ,
and Abraham returned to his place .
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And the two [
heavenly ]
agents came to Sodom at evening ,
and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom .
And Lot saw them ,
and rose up to meet them .
And he bowed himself with his face to the earth ,
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and he said ,
Behold now ,
my lords ,
turn aside ,
I pray you ,
into your servant '
s house ,
and tarry all night ,
and wash your feet ,
and ye shall rise up early ,
and go on your way .
And they said ,
No ,
but we will abide in the street all n
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And he urged them greatly .
And they turned in to him ,
and entered into his house .
And he made a feast for them ,
and baked unleavened bread ,
and they ate .
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But before they lay down ,
the men of the city ,
the men of Sodom ,
encompassed the house around ,
both young and old ,
all the people from every quarter .
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And they called to Lot ,
and said to him ,
Where are the men who came in to thee this night ?
Bring them out to us ,
that we may know them .
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And Lot went out to them to the door ,
and shut the door after him .
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And he said ,
I pray you ,
my brothers ,
do not so wickedly .
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Behold now ,
I have two daughters who have not known a man .
Let me ,
I pray you ,
bring them out to you ,
and do ye to them as is good in your eyes .
Only do nothing to these men ,
inasmuch as they have come under the shadow of my roof .
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And they said ,
Stand back .
And they said ,
This one fellow came in to sojourn ,
and he will be a judge .
Now we will deal worse with thee ,
than with them .
And they pressed greatly upon the man ,
even Lot ,
and drew near to break the doo
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But the men put forth their hand ,
and brought Lot into the house to them ,
and shut to the door .
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And they smote the men who were at the door of the house with blindness ,
both small and great ,
so that they wearied themselves to find the door .
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And the men said to Lot ,
Have thou here any besides ?
Son-in-law ,
and thy sons ,
and thy daughters ,
and whomever thou have in the city ,
bring them out of the place .
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For we will destroy this place ,
because the cry of them has been great before LORD .
And LORD has sent us to destroy it .
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And Lot went out ,
and spoke to his sons-in-law ,
who married his daughters ,
and said ,
Up ,
get you out of this place ,
for LORD will destroy the city .
But he seemed to his sons-in-law as a man jesting .
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And when the morning arose ,
then the [
heavenly ]
agents hurried Lot ,
saying ,
Arise ,
take thy wife ,
and thy two daughters who are here ,
lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city .
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But he lingered .
And the men laid hold upon his hand ,
and upon the hand of his wife ,
and upon the hand of his two daughters ,
LORD being merciful to him ,
and they brought him forth ,
and set him outside the city .
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And it came to pass ,
when they had brought them forth abroad ,
that he said ,
Escape for thy life ,
do not look behind thee ,
neither stay thou in all the Plain .
Escape to the mountain ,
lest thou be consumed .
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And Lot said to them ,
Oh ,
not so ,
my lord .
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Behold now ,
thy servant has found favor in thy sight ,
and thou have magnified thy loving kindness ,
which thou have shown to me in saving my life ,
and I cannot escape to the mountain ,
lest evil overtake me ,
and I die .
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Behold now ,
this city is near to flee to ,
and it is a little one .
Oh let me escape there (
is it not a little one ?),
and my soul shall live .
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And he said to him ,
See ,
I have accepted thee concerning this thing also ,
that I will not overthrow the city of which thou have spoken .
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Hasten thee ,
escape there ,
for I cannot do anything till thou have come there .
Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar .
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The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came to Zoar .
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Then LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from LORD out of heaven .
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And he overthrew those cities ,
and all the Plain ,
and all the inhabitants of the cities ,
and that which grew upon the ground .
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But his wife looked back from behind him ,
and she became a pillar of salt .
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And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before LORD .
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And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah ,
and toward all the land of the Plain ,
and beheld ,
and ,
lo ,
the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace .
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And it came to pass ,
when God destroyed the cities of the Plain ,
that God remembered Abraham ,
and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow ,
when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt .
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And Lot went up out of Zoar ,
and dwelt in the mountain ,
and his two daughters with him ,
for he feared to dwell in Zoar .
And he dwelt in a cave ,
he and his two daughters .
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And the firstborn said to the younger ,
Our father is old ,
and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth .
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Come ,
let us make our father drink wine ,
and we will lay with him ,
that we may preserve seed by our father .
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And 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 ,
nor when she arose .
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And it came to pass on the morrow ,
that the firstborn said to the younger ,
Behold ,
I lay last night with my father .
Let us make him drink wine this night also ,
and go thou in ,
and lay with him ,
that we may preserve seed by our fath
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And 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 ,
nor when she arose .
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Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father .
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And the firstborn bore a son ,
and called his name Moab .
The same is the father of the Moabites to this day .
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And the younger ,
she also bore a son ,
and called his name Ben-ammi .
The same is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day .
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And Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the South ,
and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur .
And he sojourned in Gerar .