The First Book of Moses Called Genesis

Chapter 19

Lot entertains holy men—The men of Sodom seek to abuse Lot’s guests and are smitten with blindness—Lot is sent out of Sodom—The Lord rains brimstone and fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah—Lot’s daughters preserve his seed in the land.


 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and awash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a afeast, and did bake bunleavened bread, and they did eat.





 aBehold now, I have two bdaughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore ccame they under the shadow of my roof.

 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to asojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.


 11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with ablindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

 12 ¶And athe men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bbring them out of this place:

 13 For we will destroy this place, because the acry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

 14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, aget you bout of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that cmocked unto his sons in law.

 15 ¶And when the morning arose, then the aangels hastened bLot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

 16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being amerciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

 17 ¶And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; alook not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the bmountain, lest thou be consumed.


 19 Behold now, thy servant hath found agrace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:


 21 And he said unto him, See, I have aaccepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.


 23 ¶The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

 24 Then the Lord rained upon aSodom and upon bGomorrah cbrimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;


 26 ¶But his wife alooked back from behind him, and she became a bpillar of salt.

 27 ¶And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:

 28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the asmoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.


 30 ¶And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the amountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.







 37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name aMoab: the same is the father of the bMoabites unto this day.

 38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of aAmmon unto this day.