1 Ao anoitecer, vieram os dois anjos a Sodoma, a cuja entrada estava Ló assentado; este, quando os viu, levantou-se e, indo ao seu encontro, prostrou-se, rosto em terra. 2 E disse-lhes: Eis agora, meus senhores, vinde para a casa do vosso servo, pernoitai nela e lavai os pés; levantar-vos-eis de madrugada e seguireis o vosso caminho. Responderam eles: Não; passaremos a noite na praça. 3 Instou-lhes muito, e foram e entraram em casa dele; deu-lhes um banquete, fez assar uns pães asmos, e eles comeram. 4 Mas, antes que se deitassem, os homens daquela cidade cercaram a casa, os homens de Sodoma, tanto os moços como os velhos, sim, todo o povo de todos os lados; 5 e chamaram por Ló e lhe disseram: Onde estão os homens que, à noitinha, entraram em tua casa? Traze-os fora a nós para que abusemos deles. 6 Saiu-lhes, então, Ló à porta, fechou-a após si 7 e lhes disse: Rogo-vos, meus irmãos, que não façais mal; 8 tenho duas filhas, virgens, eu vo-las trarei; tratai-as como vos parecer, porém nada façais a estes homens, porquanto se acham sob a proteção de meu teto. 9 Eles, porém, disseram: Retira-te daí. E acrescentaram: Só ele é estrangeiro, veio morar entre nós e pretende ser juiz em tudo? A ti, pois, faremos pior do que a eles. E arremessaram-se contra o homem, contra Ló, e se chegaram para arrombar a porta. 10 Porém os homens, estendendo a mão, fizeram entrar Ló e fecharam a porta; 11 e feriram de cegueira aos que estavam fora, desde o menor até ao maior, de modo que se cansaram à procura da porta.

12 Então, disseram os homens a Ló: Tens aqui alguém mais dos teus? Genro, e teus filhos, e tuas filhas, todos quantos tens na cidade, faze-os sair deste lugar; 13 pois vamos destruir este lugar, porque o seu clamor se tem aumentado, chegando até à presença do Senhor; e o Senhor nos enviou a destruí-lo. 14 Então, saiu Ló e falou a seus genros, aos que estavam para casar com suas filhas e disse: Levantai-vos, saí deste lugar, porque o Senhor há de destruir a cidade. Acharam, porém, que ele gracejava com eles.

15 Ao amanhecer, apertaram os anjos com Ló, dizendo: Levanta-te, toma tua mulher e tuas duas filhas, que aqui se encontram, para que não pereças no castigo da cidade. 16 Como, porém, se demorasse, pegaram-no os homens pela mão, a ele, a sua mulher e as duas filhas, sendo-lhe o Senhor misericordioso, e o tiraram, e o puseram fora da cidade. 17 Havendo-os levado fora, disse um deles: Livra-te, salva a tua vida; não olhes para trás, nem pares em toda a campina; foge para o monte, para que não pereças. 18 Respondeu-lhes Ló: Assim não, Senhor meu! 19 Eis que o teu servo achou mercê diante de ti, e engrandeceste a tua misericórdia que me mostraste, salvando-me a vida; não posso escapar no monte, pois receio que o mal me apanhe, e eu morra. 20 Eis aí uma cidade perto para a qual eu posso fugir, e é pequena. Permite que eu fuja para lá (porventura, não é pequena?), e nela viverá a minha alma. 21 Disse-lhe: Quanto a isso, estou de acordo, para não subverter a cidade de que acabas de falar. 22 Apressa-te, refugia-te nela; pois nada posso fazer, enquanto não tiveres chegado lá. Por isso, se chamou Zoar o nome da cidade.

23 Saía o sol sobre a terra, quando Ló entrou em Zoar. 24 Então, fez o Senhor chover enxofre e fogo, da parte do Senhor, sobre Sodoma e Gomorra. 25 E subverteu aquelas cidades, e toda a campina, e todos os moradores das cidades, e o que nascia na terra. 26 E a mulher de Ló olhou para trás e converteu-se numa estátua de sal. 27 Tendo-se levantado Abraão de madrugada, foi para o lugar onde estivera na presença do Senhor; 28 e olhou para Sodoma e Gomorra e para toda a terra da campina e viu que da terra subia fumaça, como a fumarada de uma fornalha.

29 Ao tempo que destruía as cidades da campina, lembrou-se Deus de Abraão e tirou a Ló do meio das ruínas, quando subverteu as cidades em que Ló habitara.

30 Subiu Ló de Zoar e habitou no monte, ele e suas duas filhas, porque receavam permanecer em Zoar; e habitou numa caverna, e com ele as duas filhas. 31 Então, a primogênita disse à mais moça: Nosso pai está velho, e não há homem na terra que venha unir-se conosco, segundo o costume de toda terra. 32 Vem, façamo-lo beber vinho, deitemo-nos com ele e conservemos a descendência de nosso pai. 33 Naquela noite, pois, deram a beber vinho a seu pai, e, entrando a primogênita, se deitou com ele, sem que ele o notasse, nem quando ela se deitou, nem quando se levantou. 34 No dia seguinte, disse a primogênita à mais nova: Deitei-me, ontem, à noite, com o meu pai. Demos-lhe a beber vinho também esta noite; entra e deita-te com ele, para que preservemos a descendência de nosso pai. 35 De novo, pois, deram, aquela noite, a beber vinho a seu pai, e, entrando a mais nova, se deitou com ele, sem que ele o notasse, nem quando ela se deitou, nem quando se levantou. 36 E assim as duas filhas de Ló conceberam do próprio pai. 37 A primogênita deu à luz um filho e lhe chamou Moabe: é o pai dos moabitas, até ao dia de hoje. 38 A mais nova também deu à luz um filho e lhe chamou Ben-Ami: é o pai dos filhos de Amom, até ao dia de hoje.

1 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; 2 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. 3 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. 4 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; 5 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. 6 And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut the door after him. 7 And he said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly. 8 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. 9 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. 10 But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. 11 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.

12 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: 13 for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before Jehovah; and Jehovah hath sent us to destroy it. 14 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. 15 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. 16 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. 17 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. 18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my lord: 19 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: 20 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. 21 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. 22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar. 24 Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven; 25 and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. 26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. 27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Jehovah: 28 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.

29 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.

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 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: 32 come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 33 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. 34 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. 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 first-born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. 38 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.

1 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.

2 "My lords," he said, "please turn aside to your servant's house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning." "No," they answered, "we will spend the night in the square."

3 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate.

4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom —both young and old —surrounded the house.

5 They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."

6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him

7 and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.

8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."

9 "Get out of our way," they replied. "This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We'll treat you worse than them." They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.

10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door.

11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.

12 The two men said to Lot, "Do you have anyone else here —sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,

13 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it."

14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry "his daughters. He said, "Hurry and get out of this place, because the LORD is about to destroy the city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished."

16 When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the LORD was merciful to them.

17 As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, "Flee for your lives! Don't look back, and don't stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!"

18 But Lot said to them, "No, my lords, "please!

19 Your "servant has found favor in your "eyes, and you "have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can't flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I'll die.

20 Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it —it is very small, isn't it? Then my life will be spared."

21 He said to him, "Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of.

22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it." (That is why the town was called Zoar. ")

23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.

24 Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah —from the LORD out of the heavens.

25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities —and also the vegetation in the land.

26 But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.

29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.

30 Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.

31 One day the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children —as is the custom all over the earth.

32 Let's get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father."

33 That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

34 The next day the older daughter said to the younger, "Last night I slept with my father. Let's get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father."

35 So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

36 So both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father.

37 The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab "; he is the father of the Moabites of today.

38 The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi "; he is the father of the Ammonites "of today.