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1 And the two angels 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 fell down on his face to the earth; 2 and he said, “Behold now, my lords, turn aside, I ask you, into your servant’s house, and stay the night, and wash your feet, and you shall rise up early, and go on your way.” And they said, “No; but we will stay in the avenue all night.” 3 And he urged them greatly; and they turned in to him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, encircled the house around, both young and old, all the people from every quarter. 5 And they called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men that came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” 6 And Lot went out to them at the door, and shut the door after him. 7 And he said, “I ask you, my brethren, do not do so wickedly. 8 Behold now, I have two daughters that have not known a man; let me, I ask you, bring them out to you, and do to them as is good in your eyes; only to these men do nothing; for they have come under the shadow of my roof.” 9 And they said, “Stand back.” And they said, “This fellow came to sojourn, and now he acts as judge; now will we deal worse with you, than with them.” And they pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door. 10 But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house with them, and they shut the door. 11 And they struck the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great; so that they wearied themselves to find the door. 12 And the men said to Lot, “Have you any others here? Son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whoever you have in the city; bring them out of this place; 13 for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the LORD Yehovah; and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.” 14 And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, “Up, get out of this place; for the LORD will destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking. 15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters that are here; lest you be swept away in the iniquity of the city.” 16 But he lingered; and the men laid hold of his hand, and of the hand of his wife, and of the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful to him. And they brought him forth, and set him outside the city. 17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth outside, that he said, “Escape for your life; do not look behind you, neither stay anywhere in the Plain; escape to the mountain, lest you be swept away.” 18 And Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord; 19 behold now, your servant has found grace in your sight, and you have magnified your mercy, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I cannot escape to the mountain, lest the evil overtake me, and I die. 20 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.” 21 And he said to him, “See, I have accepted you concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. 22 Hurry, escape there; for I cannot do any thing till you have come there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. 23 The sun was risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. 24 Then the LORD caused to rain on Sodom and on Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; 25 and He overthrow those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground. 26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. 27 And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD. 28 And he looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and lo and beheld, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace. 29 And it came to pass, when God Elohiym 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. 30 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. 31 And the elder said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth. 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve the seed of our father.” 33 And they made their father drink wine that night. And the elder went in, and lay with her father; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the elder said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine this night also; and you go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve the seed of our father.” 35 And they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose, and lay with him; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. 37 And the elder bore a son, and called his name Moab – the same is the father of the Moabites to this day. 38 And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi – the same is the father of the children of Ammon to this day. {s}
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Gen 19:1-38 Triennial Vayabou sheni, “Then came the two”
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Evidence found for Sodom and Gomorrah – Christian Answers
Sodom and Gomorrah: Is there Evidence for Their Destruction? – Assoc. for Biblical Research
Sodom and Gomorrah rediscovered – Bible Plus
Answers about Homos-xuality – Answers in Genesis
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The Biblical text is from the 1917 Jewish Publication Society edition posted by Mechon Mamre online. I have modernized words, spelling, and grammar, and aligned the verse and chapter numbers to the KJV. The linked studies, chiastic structures, and Scripture pictures are my own and are copyright © Christine Miller. All rights reserved.
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