1 黄昏的时候， 那两位天使到了所多玛， 当时罗得正坐在所多玛的城门口。罗得一看见他们， 就起来迎接他们， 俯伏在地， 2 说： "我主啊， 请你们到仆人的家里住一夜， 洗洗你们的脚， 清早起来再赶路。"他们回答： "不， 我们要在街上过夜。" 3 但由于罗得再三的请求， 他们才肯跟他回去， 进了他的家。罗得为他们预备了筵席， 烤了无酵饼， 他们就吃了。 4 他们还没有躺下睡觉， 那城里的人， 就是所多玛的男人， 无论是年轻的或是年老的， 都从各处来围住罗得的房子。 5 他们呼唤罗得， 对他说： "今晚到你这里来的人在哪里？把他们带出来， 我们要与他们同房。" 6 罗得出来， 随手把门关上， 到门口众人那里， 7 说： "我的弟兄们， 请不要作恶。 8 看哪， 我有两个女儿， 是还没有和男人同房的， 让我把她们带出来， 你们高兴怎样待她们， 就怎样行吧！ 只是这两个人， 因为他们是到舍下来的， 你们不可向他们作什么。" 9 众人却说： "滚开！ "又说： "一个来这里寄居的人， 竟作起审判官来； 现在我们要害你， 比害他们还要厉害。"众人就向罗得极力拥挤， 他们冲前要打破房门。 10 那两个人却伸出手来， 把罗得拉进屋里去， 并把门关上。 11 然后击打那些门外的人， 使他们无论老少， 都眼目昏眩， 以致找不到门口。 12 那二人对罗得说： "你这里还有什么人没有？无论是女婿、儿女， 或是城中所有属你的人， 都要把他们从这地方带走。 13 我们快要毁灭这地方了， 因为控告他们的声音在耶和华面前实在很大， 所以耶和华派我们来毁灭这地方。" 14 于是罗得出去， 告诉娶了他女儿的女婿说： "你们起来离开这地方； 因为耶和华就要毁灭这城。"但是他的女婿以为他在开玩笑。 15 天快亮的时候， 两位天使催促罗得说： "起来， 带你的妻子， 和你这里的两个女儿出去， 免得你因这城的罪孽被除灭。" 16 罗得还在犹豫不决的时候， 二人因为耶和华宽容罗得， 就拉着罗得的手， 和他妻子的手， 以及他两个女儿的手， 把他们带出来， 安置在城外。 17 二人把他们带出来以后， 其中一位说： "逃命吧， 不要回头看， 也不可留在这片平原上， 要逃到山上去， 免得你被除灭。" 18 罗得对他们说： "我主啊！ 请不要这样。 19 看哪， 你仆人既然在你眼前蒙恩， 你又向我大施慈爱， 救活我的性命； 可是我还逃不到山上， 恐怕这灾祸就追上了我， 我就死了。 20 看哪， 这座城很近， 可以逃到那里， 那只是一座小城， 请让我逃到那里去。那不是一座小城吗？这样我就可以活命了。" 21 有一位天使对他说： "这事我也答应你， 你所说的这城， 我必不倾覆。 22 你赶快逃到那里去， 因为你还没有到达那里， 我就不能作什么。"因此那城名叫琐珥。 23 罗得到达琐珥的时候， 太阳已经从地面升上来了。 24 当时， 耶和华就使硫磺与火， 从天上耶和华那里降与所多玛和蛾摩拉； 25 把那些城和全平原， 以及城中所有的居民， 连地上生长的， 都毁灭了。 26 罗得的妻子向后一望， 就变成了盐柱。 27 亚伯拉罕清早起来， 到他从前站在耶和华面前的地方， 28 向所多玛和蛾摩拉， 以及平原全地观望。不料， 看见那地有烟上升， 好像烧窑的烟一样。 29 神毁灭那平原上的众城， 倾覆罗得所住过的众城的时候， 神记念亚伯拉罕， 把罗得从倾覆中救出来。 30 罗得因为怕住在琐珥， 就与他的两个女儿， 一同离开琐珥上了山， 住在那里； 他和两个女儿住在一个洞里。 31 大女儿对小女儿说： "我们的爸爸已经老了， 这地又没有男人可以按着世上的常规进来与我们亲近。 32 来吧， 我们可以叫父亲喝酒， 然后与他同睡， 这样我们可以借着父亲保全后裔。" 33 当夜， 她们叫父亲喝酒， 大女儿就进去与父亲同睡， 她什么时候躺下， 什么时候起来， 她父亲都不知道。 34 第二天， 大女儿对小女儿说： "昨夜我与父亲同睡了， 今夜我们再叫父亲喝酒， 你可以进去与他同睡， 这样我们可以借着父亲保全后裔。" 35 当夜， 她们又叫父亲喝酒， 小女儿就起来， 与父亲同睡； 她什么时候躺下， 什么时候起来， 她父亲都不知道。 36 这样， 罗得的两个女儿， 都从她们的父亲怀了孕。 37 大女儿生了一个儿子， 给他起名叫摩押， 就是现在摩押人的始祖。 38 小女儿也生了一个儿子， 给他起名叫便．亚米， 就是现在亚扪人的始祖。

1 And two of the messengers come towards Sodom at even, and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot seeth, and riseth to meet them, and boweth himself -- face to the earth,2 and he saith, `Lo, I pray you, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, unto the house of your servant, and lodge, and wash your feet -- then ye have risen early and gone on your way;` and they say, `Nay, but in the broad place we do lodge.`3 And he presseth on them greatly, and they turn aside unto him, and come in unto his house; and he maketh for them a banquet, and hath baked unleavened things; and they do eat.4 Before they lie down, the men of the city -- men of Sodom -- have come round about against the house, from young even unto aged, all the people from the extremity;5 and they call unto Lot and say to him, `Where [are] the men who have come in unto thee to-night? bring them out unto us, and we know them.`6 And Lot goeth out unto them, to the opening, and the door hath shut behind him,7 and saith, `Do not, I pray you, my brethren, do evil;8 lo, I pray you, I have two daughters, who have not known any one; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do to them as [is] good in your eyes; only to these men do not anything, for therefore have they come in within the shadow of my roof.`9 And they say, `Come nigh hither;` they say also, `This one hath come in to sojourn, and he certainly judgeth! now, we do evil to thee more than [to] them;` and they press against the man, against Lot greatly, and come nigh to break the door.10 And the men put forth their hand, and bring in Lot unto them, into the house, and have shut the door;11 and the men who [are] at the opening of the house they have smitten with blindness, from small even unto great, and they weary themselves to find the opening.12 And the men say unto Lot, `Whom hast thou here still? son-in-law, thy sons also, and thy daughters, and all whom thou hast in the city, bring out from this place;13 for we are destroying this place, for their cry hath been great [before] the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth send us to destroy it.`14 And Lot goeth out, and speaketh unto his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and saith, `Rise, go out from this place, for Jehovah is destroying the city;` and he is as [one] mocking in the eyes of his sons-in-law.15 And when the dawn hath ascended, then the messengers press upon Lot, saying, `Rise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters who are found present, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.`16 And he lingereth, and the men lay hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, through the mercy of Jehovah unto him, and they bring him out, and cause him to rest without the city.17 And it cometh to pass when he hath brought them out without, that he saith, `Escape for thy life; look not expectingly behind thee, nor stand thou in all the circuit; to the mountain escape, lest thou be consumed.`18 And Lot saith unto them, `Not [so], I pray thee, my lord;19 lo, I pray thee, thy servant hath found grace in thine eyes, and thou dost make great thy kindness which thou hast done with me by saving my life, and I am unable to escape to the mountain, lest the evil cleave [to] me, and I have died;20 lo, I pray thee, this city [is] near to flee thither, and it [is] little; let me escape, I pray thee, thither, (is it not little?) and my soul doth live.`21 And he saith unto him, `Lo, I have accepted thy face also for this thing, without overthrowing the city [for] which thou hast spoken;22 haste, escape thither, for I am not able to do anything till thine entering thither;` therefore hath he calleth the name of the city Zoar.23 The sun hath gone out on the earth, and Lot hath entered into Zoar,24 and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens;25 and He overthroweth these cities, and all the circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which is shooting up from the ground.26 And his wife looketh expectingly from behind him, and she is -- a pillar of salt!27 And Abraham riseth early in the morning, unto the place where he hath stood [before] the face of Jehovah;28 and he looketh on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the face of the land of the circuit, and seeth, and lo, the smoke of the land went up as smoke of the furnace.29 And it cometh to pass, in God`s destroying the cities of the circuit, that God remembereth Abraham, and sendeth Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in the overthrowing of the cities in which Lot dwelt.30 And Lot goeth up out of Zoar, and dwelleth in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he hath been afraid of dwelling in Zoar, and he dwelleth in a cave, he and his two daughters.31 And the first-born saith unto the younger, `Our father [is] old, and a man there is not in the earth to come in unto us, as [is] the way of all the earth;32 come, we cause our father to drink wine, and lie with him, and preserve from our father -- a seed.`33 And they cause their father to drink wine on that night; and the first-born goeth in, and lieth with her father, and he hath not known in her lying down, or in her rising up.34 And it cometh to pass, on the morrow, that the first-born saith unto the younger, `Lo, I have lain yesterday-night with my father: we cause him to drink wine also to-night, and go thou in, lie with him, and we preserve from our father -- a seed.`35 And they cause their father to drink wine on that night also, and the younger riseth and lieth with him, and he hath not known in her lying down, or in her rising up.36 And the two daughters of Lot conceive from their father,37 and the first-born beareth a son, and calleth his name Moab; he [is] father of Moab unto this day;38 as to the younger, she also hath born a son, and calleth his name Ben-Ammi: he [is] father of the Beni-Ammon unto this day.