Lot Entertains Angels
1 The two angels came to Sodom at evening, and Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them and rose up to meet them. He bowed with his face to the ground 2 and said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise early and go on your way.”
They said, “No, we will stay in the street all night.”
3 He implored them to come in with him, and they entered his house. 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 the house, 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 with 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, do not do such a wicked thing. 8 See now, I have two daughters who have never had sexual relations with a man. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only do not do anything to these men, because they have come under the protection of my roof.”
9 They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot and came near to break the door. 10 But the men inside 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 and great, so that they wore themselves out trying to find the door.
Lot Runs to Zoar
12 The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Your sons-in-law, sons, daughters, and whomever 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 so great before the Lord that the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”
14 Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for the Lord will destroy the city!” But he appeared 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 destroyed in the punishment of the city.”
16 But he lingered, and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, the Lord, 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! Do not look behind you and do not stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed!”
18 Lot said to them, “Please no, my lord! 19 See now, your servant has found favor in your 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 disaster overtake me, and I die. 20 See now, this city is near to run to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there–isn’t it a little place?–and I will live.”
21 He said to him, “I have granted your request concerning this also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. 22 Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you get there.”
Therefore the city was called Zoar.
23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed
24 Then the Lord rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah, sulfur and fire from the Lord, from the sky. 25 He overthrew those cities, the entire plain, all of the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
Lot’s Wife Destroyed
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 the Lord. 28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.
29 When God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham and sent Lot out from the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
Nonconsensual Sex, Moabites and Ammonites
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 on the earth to come in to us as is the custom of everyone else on the earth. 32 Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may 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 did not 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, “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 did not 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 him Ben Ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites to this day.