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And the two angels came to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom : and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth ;
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and he said , Behold now, my lords , turn aside, I pray you, into your servant 's house , and tarry all night, and wash your feet , and ye shall rise up early , and go on your way . And they said , Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
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And he urged them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house ; and he made them a feast , and did bake unleavened bread , and they did eat .
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But before they lay down , the men of the city , [even] the men of Sodom , compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;
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and they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men that came in to thee this night ? bring them out unto us , that we may know them.
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And Lot went out unto them to the door , and shut the door after him.
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And he said , I pray you, my brethren , do not so wickedly.
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Behold now, I have two daughters that 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, forasmuch as they are come under the shadow of my roof .
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And they said , Stand back. And they said , This one fellow came in to sojourn , 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 drew near to break the door .
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But the men put forth their hand , and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door .
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And they smote 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 .
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And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son -in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters , and whomsoever thou hast in the city , bring them out of the place :
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for we will destroy this place , because the cry of them is waxed great before Jehovah : and Jehovah hath sent us to destroy it.
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And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law , who married his daughters , and said , Up, get you out of this place ; for Jehovah will destroy the city . But he seemed unto his sons-in-law as one that mocked.
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And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise , take thy wife , and thy two daughters that are here, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city .
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But he lingered ; and the men laid hold upon his hand , and upon the hand of his wife , and upon the hand of his two daughters , Jehovah being merciful unto him; and they brought him forth, and set him without the city .
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And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said , Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain ; escape to the mountain , lest thou be consumed.
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And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my lord :
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behold now, thy servant hath found favor in thy sight , and thou hast magnified thy lovingkindness, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain , lest evil overtake me, and I die :
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behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape thither (is it not a little one?), and my soul shall live.
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And he said unto him, See , I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken .
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Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar .
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The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar .
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Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven ;
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and he overthrew those cities , and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities , and that which grew upon the ground.
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But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt .
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And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Jehovah :
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and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah , and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
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And it came to pass, when God 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 .
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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 .
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And the first-born said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth :
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come, let us make our father drink wine , and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father .
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And they made their father drink wine that night : and the first-born went in, and lay with her father ; and he knew not when she lay down , nor when she arose.
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And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father : let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father .
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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.
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Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father .
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And the first-born bare a son , and called his name Moab : the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day .
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And the younger, she also bare a son , and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day .