1 And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw [them], and he rose up to meet them, and he bowed himself, nostrils to the earth. VP
2 And he said, “Behold now, my lords, please, turn aside into the house of your⁺ servant, and spend the night and wash your⁺ feet. And you⁺ may rise early and go on your⁺ way.” And they said, “No, for we will spend the night in the open square.” VP
3 And he pressed them greatly, and they turned aside to him and entered into his house. And he made for them a feast, and he baked unleavened [bread], and they ate. VP
4 Before they lay down, the men of the city—the men of Sodom—encircled the house, from young and to old, all the people from the end. VP
5 And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you this night? Bring them out to us and let us know them.” VP
6 And Lot went out to them [at] the doorway, and he shut the door behind him. VP
7 And he said, “Please, my brothers, do not do evil. VP
8 Behold now, to me [are] two daughters who have not known a man; please let me bring them out to you⁺, and you⁺ may do to them according to the good in your⁺ eyes. Only to these men do not anything, for upon thus they have come under the shadow of my roof.” VP
9 And they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This one came in to sojourn, and he is surely judging! Now we will do evil to you more than to them!” And they pressed greatly against the man, against Lot, and they drew near to break down the door. VP
10 And the men stretched out their hand and they brought Lot to them into the house, and they shut the door. VP
11 And they struck with blindness the men who [were] at the doorway of the house, from small and to great, and they grew weary [trying] to find the doorway. VP
12 And the men said to Lot, “Who else [is] to you here—a son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and all that [is] to you in the city? Bring [them] out from the place. VP
13 For we will destroy this place, because their outcry has grown great before the face of YHWH, and YHWH has sent us to destroy it.” VP
14 And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, the ones taking his daughters, and he said, “Rise up, get out from this place, for YHWH is destroying the city.” And he seemed like one laughing in the eyes of his sons-in-law. VP
15 And as the dawn came up, and the angels pressed Lot, saying, “Rise up, take your wife and your two daughters who are found [here], lest you be swept away in the iniquity of the city.” VP
16 And he lingered, and the men took hold of his hand and of the hand of his wife and of the hand of his two daughters—in the compassion of YHWH upon him—and they brought him out and set him outside of the city. VP
17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, “Escape for your soul! Do not look behind you and do not stand in all the plain! Escape to the mountains, lest you be swept away!” VP
18 And Lot said to them, “No, please, my lords! VP
19 Behold, please, your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have increased your kindness, which you have done with me to keep alive my soul. And I am not able to escape to the mountains, lest the evil cling to me and I die. VP
20 Behold, please, this city [is] near to flee there, and it [is] a small place. Let me escape there, please. Is it not a small place? And my soul shall live!” VP
21 And he said to him, “Behold, I have lifted up your face also concerning this thing, not to overthrow the city of which you have spoken. VP
22 Hurry, escape there, for I am not able to do anything until your coming there.” Upon thus the name of the city was called Zoar. VP
23 When the sun had risen upon the earth and Lot came to Zoar, VP
24 then YHWH rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah brimstone and fire from YHWH out of the heavens. VP
25 And He overthrew these cities, and all the plain, and all those dwelling in the cities, and the growth of the ground. VP
26 And his wife looked from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. VP
27 And Abraham rose early in the morning [and went] to the place where he had stood there before the face of YHWH. VP
28 And he looked down upon the face of Sodom and Gomorrah and upon all the land of the plain, and he saw, and behold, thick smoke of the land went up like the thick smoke of the furnace. VP
29 And it came to pass when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham and sent out Lot from the midst of the overthrow when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt. VP
30 And Lot went up from Zoar and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar. And he dwelt in the cave—he and his two daughters. VP
31 And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father [is] old, and [there is] no man in the earth to come in to us, according to the way of all the earth. VP
32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may keep alive seed from our father.” VP
33 And they made their father drink wine on that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. VP
34 And it came to pass on the next day that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, last night I lay with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in, lie with him, and we may keep alive seed from our father.” VP
35 And they made their father drink wine on that night also, and the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. VP
36 And the two daughters of Lot conceived from their father. VP
37 And the firstborn bore a son, and she called his name Moab; he [is] the father of the Moabites to this day. VP
38 And the younger, she also bore a son, and she called his name Ben-ammi; he [is] the father of the sons of Ammon to this day. VP