The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Genesis 19
1 The two angels came to Sodom at
evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot
saw them, and rose up to meet them. He
bowed himself with his face to the earth,
2 and he said, “See now, my lords, please
come into your servant’s house, stay all
night, wash your feet, and you can rise up
early, and go on your way.”
They said, “No, but we will stay in the
street all night.”
3 He urged them greatly, and they came
in withhim, and entered intohishouse. He
made them a feast, and baked unleavened
bread, and they ate.
4 But before they lay down, the men of
the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded thehouse, both
young and old, all the people
from every quarter.
5 They called to Lot, and said to him,
“Where are the men who came in to you
this night? Bring them out to us, that we
may have sex with them.”
6 Lot went out to them through the door,
and shut the door after himself.
7 He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act
so wickedly.
8 See now, I have two virgin daughters.
Please let me bring them out to you, and
you may do to them what seems good to
you. Only don’t do anything to these men,
because they have come under the shadow
of my roof.”
9 They said, “Stand back!” Then they
said, “This one fellow came in to live as a
foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge.
Now we will deal worse withyouthan with
them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot,
and came near to break the door.
10 But the men reached out their hand,
and brought Lot into the house to them,
and shut the door.
11 They struck the men who were at the
door of the house with blindness, both
small andgreat, so thatthey weariedthemselves to find the door.
12 The men said to Lot, “Do you have
anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons,
your daughters, and whomever you have
in the city, bring them out of the place:
13 for we will destroy this place, because
the outcry againstthem has grownso great
before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to
destroy it.”
14 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-inlaw, who we repledged to
marry his daughters, and said, “Getup! Get out ofthis place,
for Yahweh will destroy the city!”
But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be
joking.
15 When the morning came, then the
angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take
your wife and your two daughters who are
here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity
of the city.”
16 But he lingered; and the men grabbed
his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two
daughters’ hands, Yahweh being merciful
to him; and they took him out, and set him
outside of the city.
17 It came to pass, when they had taken
them out, that he said, “Escape for your
life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t
stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the
mountains, lest you be consumed!”
18 Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.
19 See now, your servant has found favor
inyour sight, and you have magnified your
loving kindness, which you have shown to
me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the
mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
20 See now, this city is near to flee to, and
it is a little one. Oh let me escape there
(isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live.”
21 He said to him, “Behold,I have granted
your request concerning this thing also,
that I will not overthrow the city of which
you have spoken.
22 Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the
name of the city was called Zoar.†
23 The sun had risen on the earth when
Lot came to Zoar.
24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and
on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh
out of the sky.
25 He overthrew those cities, alltheplain,
all the inhabitants of the cities, and that
which grew on the ground.
26 But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before
Yahweh.
28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain,
and saw thatthe smoke ofthe land went up
as the smoke of a furnace.
29 When God destroyed the cities of the
plain, God remembered Abraham, and
sent Lot out ofthemiddle ofthe overthrow,
when he overthrew the cities in which Lot
lived.
30 Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in
the mountain, and his two daughters with
him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He
lived in a cave with his two daughters.
31 The firstborn said to the younger, “Our
father is old, and there is not a man in the
earth to come in to us in the way of all the
earth.
32 Come, let’s make our father drink
wine, and we willlie withhim,that wemay
preserve our father’s family line.”
33 They made their father drink wine
that night: and the firstborn went in, and
lay with her father. He didn’t know when
she lay down, nor when she arose.
34 It came to pass on the next day, that
the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold,
I lay last night with my father. Let’s make
him drink wine again tonight. You go in,
and lie with him, that we may preserve our
father’s family line.”
35 They made their father drink wine
that night also. The younger went and lay
with him. He didn’t know when she lay
down, nor when she got up.
36 Thus both of Lot’s daughters were
with child by their father.
37 The firstborn bore a son, and named
him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites
to this day.
38 The younger also bore a son, and
called his nameBen Ammi. He is the father
of the children of Ammon to this day
19:22 Zoar means “little”.