Gen 19 | EngLXX | STEP | And the two angels came to Sodom at evening. And Lot sat by the gate of Sodom, and Lot havingseen them, rose up to meet them, and he worshipped with his face to the ground, and said,

Genesis 19

1 And the two angels came to Sodom at evening. And Lot sat by the gate of Sodom, and Lot havingseen them, rose up to meet them, and he worshipped with his face to the ground, and said, 2 Behold!my lords, turn aside to the house of your servant, and rest from your journey, and wash yourfeet, and having risen early in the morning you⌃ shall depart on your journey. And they said, Nay, butwe will lodge in the street. 3 And he constrained them, and they turned aside to him, and they entered into his house,and he made a feast for them, and baked unleavened cakes for them, and they did eat. 4 But before they went to sleep, the men of the city, the Sodomites, compassed the house,both young and old, all the people together. 5 And they called out Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that went in to you this night?bring them out to us that we may be with them. 6 And Lot went out to them to the porch, and he shut the door after him, 7 and said to them, By no means, brethren, do not act villanously. 8 But I have two daughters, who have not known a man. I will bring them out to you, anddo you⌃ use them as it may please you, only do not injury to these men, to avoid which they came underthe shelter of my roof. 9 And they said to him, Stand back there, you came in to sojourn, was it also to judge?Now then we would harm you more than them. And they pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and they drew nearto break the door. 10 And the men stretched forth their hands and drew Lot in to them into the house, and shutthe door of the house. 11 And they struck the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both smalland great, and they were wearied with seeking the door. 12 And the men said to Lot, Hast you here sons-in-law, or sons or daughters, or if you haveany other friend in the city, bring them out of this place. 13 For we are going to destroy this place; for their cry has been raised up before the Lord,and the Lord has sent us to destroy it. 14 And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law who had married his daughters, and said,Rise up, and depart out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city; but he seemed to bespeaking absurdly before his sons-in-law. 15 But when it was morning, the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise and take your wife, andyour two daughters whom you have, and go forth; lest you also be destroyed with the iniquities of thecity. 16 And they were troubled, and the angels laid hold on his hand, and the hand of his wife,and the hands of his two daughters, in that the Lord spared him. 17 And it came to pass when they brought them out, that they said, Save your own life byall means; look not round to that which is behind, nor stay in all the country round about, escape tothe mountain, lest perhaps you be overtaken together with them. 18 And Lot said to them, I pray, Lord, 19 since your servant has found mercy before you, and you have magnified your righteousness,in what you do towards me that my soul may live, —but I shall not be able to escape to the mountain, lestperhaps the calamity overtake me and I die. 20 Behold this city is near for me to escape there, which is a small one, and there shallI be preserved, is it not little? and my soul shall live because of you. 21 And he said to him, Behold, I have had respect to you also about this thing, that I shouldnot overthrow the city about which you have spoken. 22 Hasten therefore to escape there, for I shall not be able to do anything until you arecome there; therefore he called the name of that city, Segor. 23 The sun was risen upon the earth, when Lot entered into Segor. 24 And the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. 25 And he overthrew these cities, and all the country round about, and all that lived inthe cities, and the plants springing out of the ground. 26 And his wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. 27 And Abraam rose up early to go to the place, where he had stood before the Lord. 28 And he looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha, and towards the surrounding country, and saw,and behold a flame went up from the earth, as the smoke of a furnace. 29 And it came to pass that when God destroyed all the cities of the region round about,God remembered Abraam, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when the Lord overthrew those citiesin which Lot lived. 30 And Lot went up out of Segor, and lived in the mountain, he and his two daughters withhim, for he feared to dwell in Segor; and he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters with him. 31 And the elder said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no one on the earthwho shall come in to us, as it is fit in all the earth. 32 Come and let us make our father drink wine, and let us sleep with him, and let us raiseup seed from our father. 33 So they made their father drink wine in that night, and the elder went in and lay withher father that night, and he knew not when he slept and when he rose up. 34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the elder said to the younger, Behold, I sleptyesternight with our father, let us make him drink wine in this night also, and do you go in and sleepwith him, and let us raise up seed of our father. 35 So they made their father drink wine in that night also, and the younger went in andslept with her father, and he knew not when he slept, nor when he arose. 36 And the two daughters of Lot conceived by their father. 37 And the elder bore a son and called his name Moab, saying,He is of my father. This is the father of the Moabites to this present day. 38 And the younger also bore a son, and called his name Amman, saying, The son of my family.This is the father of the Ammanites to this present day.