King James Version

1 And two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the ground. 2 And he said, "Here now, my lord, please turn aside into the house of your servant and spend the night and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way." But they said, "No, we will spend the night in the open square." 3 And he pleaded with them very much, and they turned to him and came into his house, and he made a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 4 Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, from young to old, all the people from every quarter. 5 And they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we may know them." 6 And Lot went out to them at the entrance, and the door was shut behind him. 7 And he said, "Do not harm me, I beg you." 8 Behold now, there are two daughters who have not known a man; please bring them out to you and do to them as is good in your eyes; only to these men do not do anything, for on this account they have come under the shadow of my roof. 9 And they said, “Step back.” And they said, “This one came to stay, and he is judging now. We will deal worse with you than with them.” And they pressed hard against the man, Lot, and drew near to break the door. 10 And the men stretched out their hands and brought Lot to them into the house, and they shut the door. 11 And the men who were at the entrance of the house struck with blindness from small to great, so that they could not find the entrance. 12 And the men said to Lot, "Who else do you have here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and all that you have in the city, bring them out of this place." 13 For we are destroying this place, because their outcry has grown great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it. 14 And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were taking his daughters and said, "Get up, go out from this place, for the Lord is destroying the city." But he appeared to his sons-in-law as one who was joking. 15 And as the dawn arose, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the iniquity of the city." 16 And he delayed, and the men held him by his hand and by the hand of his wife and by the hand of his two daughters, because of the mercy of the LORD upon him; and they brought him out and set him outside the city. 17 And it happened when they brought them out to the outside, he said, "Escape for your life! Do not look behind you and do not stand in any of the plain; escape to the mountain, lest you be swept away." 18 And Lot said to them, "Please, my lords." 19 Here, please, I have found favor in your eyes, and you have enlarged your kindness which you have shown to me, to save my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest the evil overtake me and I die. 20 Behold now, this city is close enough to flee there, and it is small; let me escape there—is it not small? And my soul will live. 21 And he said to me, "Behold, I have lifted up my face toward you also for this thing, to not destroy the city of which you spoke." 22 Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there. Therefore, he named the city Zoar. 23 The sun came out over the earth and Lot went to Zoar. 24 And the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of the heavens. 25 And He turned the cities of those, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and the vegetation of the ground. 26 And his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. 27 And Abraham rose early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord. 28 And he looked upon the face of Sodom and Gomorrah and upon all the face of the plain, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land ascended like 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 had dwelt. 30 And Lot went up from Zoar and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters were with him, for he feared to dwell in Zoar; and he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters. 31 And the elder said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to come to us as is the way of all the earth." 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, and we will preserve seed from our father. 33 And she gave her father wine to drink at night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down and when she arose. 34 And it shall be tomorrow, and the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay with my father last night; let us make him drink wine also tonight, and you go in, lie with him, and we will preserve seed from our father." 35 And she also gave to her father wine that night, and the younger one arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down and when she arose. 36 And the two daughters of Lot were surprised from their father. 37 And the firstborn gave birth to a son, and she called his name Moab; he is the father of Moab to this day. 38 And the young woman also gave birth to a son and she called his name Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the children of Ammon until this day.