1 The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, 2 and he said, "See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way."

They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."

3 He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into 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 to 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, don’t act so wickedly. 8 See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."

9 They said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one fellow 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 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 wearied themselves to find the door.

12 The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place: 13 for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before Yahweh that Yahweh 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 Yahweh will destroy the city!"

But he seemed 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 consumed in the iniquity of the city." 16 But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahweh 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! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!"

18 Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, 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 evil overtake me, and I die. 20 See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live."

21 He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. 22 Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. 24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky. 25 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground. 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 Yahweh. 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 as the smoke of a furnace.

29 When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

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 in the earth to come in to us in the way of all 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 didn’t 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, "Behold, 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 didn’t 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 his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

1 Ja need kaks Inglit jõudsid õhtul Soodomasse. Lott istus parajasti Soodoma väravas. Kui Lott neid nägi, siis ta tõusis neile vastu, kummardas silmili maha

2 ja ütles: „Ennäe mu isandaid! Astuge ometi oma sulase kotta, jääge öömajale ja peske oma jalad. Hommikul võite vara üles tõusta ja oma teekonda jätkata!" Kuid nad vastasid: „Ei, me jääme ööseks välja!"

3 Aga ta käis neile väga peale. Siis nad põikasid tema juurde ning tulid ta kotta. Ja ta valmistas neile söömaaja, küpsetas hapnemata leibu ja nad sõid.

4 Nad ei olnud veel magama heitnud, kui linna mehed, Soodoma mehed, piirasid koda, niihästi noored kui vanad, kogu rahvas viimseni,

5 ja hüüdsid Lotti ning ütlesid temale: „Kus on mehed, kes öösel tulid sinu juurde? Too nad välja meie kätte, et saaksime neid katsuda!"

6 Siis Lott läks välja nende juurde ukse ette, sulges ukse enese järel

7 ja ütles: „Mu vennad, ärge ometi tehke kurja!

8 Vaadake, mul on kaks tütart, kes mehest veel midagi ei tea. Ma toon need välja teie kätte ja talitage nendega, nagu teie silmis hea on. Neile meestele ainult ärge tehke midagi, sest nad on tulnud varjule minu katuse alla!"

9 Kuid nad vastasid: „Käi minema!" Ja nad ütlesid: „Ise on tulnud võõrana elama, aga tahab olla kohtumõistjaks! Nüüd me kohtleme sind kurjemini kui neid!" Ja nad kippusid väga mehe, Loti, kallale ning asusid ust maha murdma.

10 Siis mehed sirutasid käed välja, tõmbasid Loti eneste juurde kotta ja sulgesid ukse.

11 Aga mehi, kes koja ukse taga olid, lõid nad pimestusega, niihästi väikesi kui suuri, nõnda et need väsisid ust otsimast.

12 Ja mehed ütlesid Lotile: „Kas sul veel keegi siin on? Oma väimehed, pojad ja tütred ja kõik, kes sul linnas on, vii siit paigast ära,

13 sest me hävitame selle paiga, kuna hädakisa nende pärast on Issanda ees suur; ja Issand on meid läkitanud seda hävitama!"

14 Siis Lott läks välja ja kõneles oma väimeestega, kes pidid võtma ta tütred, ning ütles: „Tõuske, minge siit paigast ära, sest Issand hävitab selle linna!" Aga oma väimeeste silmis ta heitis nalja.

15 Ja kui hakkas koitma, kiirustasid Inglid Lotti, öeldes: „Tõuse, võta oma naine ja kaks tütart, kes siin on, et sa ei hukkuks linna süü pärast!"

16 Ja kui ta veel kõhkles, siis haarasid mehed kinni ta käest, ja ta naise käest ja ta mõlemate tütarde käest, sest Issand tahtis teda säästa; ja nad viisid ta ära ning jätsid väljapoole linna.

17 Ja neid välja viies nad ütlesid: „Päästa oma hing! Ära vaata selja taha ja ära peatu mitte kuskil ümbruskonnas! Põgene mäestikku, et sa ei hukkuks!"

18 Ja Lott vastas neile: „Muidugi mitte, mu Issand!

19 Vaata, Su sulane on küll Sinu silmis armu leidnud ja suur on Su heldus, mida mulle oled osutanud, jättes mu hinge elama! Aga ma ei suuda põgeneda mäestikku, et õnnetus mind ei tabaks ja ma ei sureks!

20 Vaata, see linn taamal on nii ligidal, et sinna võiks põgeneda ja on pisitilluke! Kui ma ometi sinna pääseksin — eks ole, see on ju pisitilluke? — siis võiks mu hing jääda elama!"

21 Ja Ta vastas temale: „Vaata, Ma võtan sind kuulda ka selles asjas ega paiska segi linna, millest sa räägid!

22 Tõtta, põgene sinna, sest Ma ei või midagi teha enne, kui sa sinna oled jõudnud!" Seepärast pandi sellele linnale nimeks Soar.

23 Päike oli just tõusnud maa kohale, kui Lott jõudis Soari.

24 Ja Issand laskis sadada Soodoma ja Gomorra peale väävlit ja tuld Issanda juurest taevast

25 ning hävitas need linnad ja kogu ümbruskonna, kõik linnade elanikud ja maa taimestiku.

26 Aga Loti naine, kes ta järel käis, vaatas tagasi ja muutus soolasambaks!

27 Ja Aabraham läks hommikul vara paika, kus ta Issanda ees oli seisnud,

28 heitis pilgu alla Soodoma ja Gomorra poole ja kogu ümbruskonna maapinnale, vaatas, ja ennäe, maast tõusis suits otsekui sulatusahju suits!

29 Kui Jumal oli segi paisanud ümbruskonna linnad, mõtles Jumal Aabrahamile ja saatis Loti ära selle hävituse keskelt, millega ta segi paiskas need linnad, kus Lott oli elanud.

30 Ja Lott läks Soarist üles ning elas mäestikus ühes oma kahe tütrega, sest ta kartis elada Soaris; ta elas ühes koopas, tema ise ja ta mõlemad tütred.

31 Kord ütles vanem nooremale: „Meie isa on vana ja pole ühtki meest maal, kes tuleks meie juurde kogu maailma kombe järgi.

32 Tule, joodame oma isa viinaga ja magame temaga, et saaksime oma isalt järeltulija!"

33 Ja nad jootsid oma isa sel ööl viinaga ja vanem läks ning magas oma isaga; see ei märganudki, millal ta magama heitis või üles tõusis.

34 Ja järgmisel päeval ütles vanem nooremale: „Vaata, ma magasin eile oma isaga. Joodame ka sel ööl teda viinaga, siis mine maga sina temaga, et saaksime oma isalt järeltulija!"

35 Ja nad jootsid ka sel ööl oma isa viinaga ja noorem läks ning magas temaga; see ei märganudki, millal ta magama heitis või üles tõusis.

36 Ja Loti mõlemad tütred said oma isast käima peale.

37 Ja vanem sünnitas poja ning pani temale nimeks Moab; see on moabiitide isa tänapäevani.

38 Ja noorem sünnitas ka poja ning pani temale nimeks Ben-Ammi; see on ammonlaste isa tänapäevani.