¹Then two angels came to Sodom in the evening, while Lot was sitting at Sodom's gate, and Lot saw them and got up to meet them, and he bowed his face to the ground. ²And he said, “Look, if you would, my lords, turn aside, if you would, to the house of your servant and lodge here, and wash your feet and get up early and go your way.” But they said, “No, for we can lodge in the street.” ³But he urged them strongly, and they turned aside to him and came to his house, and he prepared a feast and baked unleavened bread for them, and they ate it. ⁴But before they reclined, men from the city – men from Sodom – surrounded the house, both youths and old men: all the people from its limits. ⁵And they called out 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.” ⁶Then Lot went out to them, to the entrance, and he shut the door after him. ⁷And he said, “My brothers, do not, please, do any wrong. ⁸Look now, I have my two daughters who have not known a man. Let me bring them out to you, would you, and you do to them what is right in your eyes, but do not do anything to these men, for there is a reason why they have come to the protection of my roof.” ⁹But they said, “Move away”, and they said, “This one came to stay and he is determined to judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them.” Then they pressed the man – Lot – greatly and drew near so as to break down the door. ¹⁰At this the men stretched out their hand and brought Lot in to them into the house, then they shut the door, ¹¹and they struck the men who were at the entrance to the house with blindness, both small and great, and they struggled to find the entrance. ¹²Then the men said to Lot, “Who else is with you here? Get any son-in-law, or sons or daughters of yours and everyone whom you have in the city out of the place, ¹³for we are about to bring this place to ruin, for their cry has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to bring it to ruin.” ¹⁴Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had taken his daughters in marriage, and said, “Get up and get out of this place, for the Lord is about to bring the city to ruin.” But he was regarded as a joker in the eyes of his sons-in-law. ¹⁵And as dawn arose, the angels urged Lot and said, “Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are present here so that you are not destroyed in the city's iniquity.” ¹⁶But he took his time, and the men took him by the hand, and his wife by the hand, and his two daughters by the hand, in the Lord's mercy to him, and they brought him out, and they set him down outside the city. ¹⁷And it came to pass as they took them outside that one said, “Escape to save your life; do not look behind you, and do not stay at any adjacent tract. Escape to the mountain so that you are not destroyed.” ¹⁸Then Lot said to them, “May it not be so, Lord^*. ¹⁹Look now, your servant has found grace in your sight, and you have been very kind in how you have dealt with me, in keeping me alive, but I cannot escape to the mountain, in case evil comes upon me and I die. ²⁰Look, please, this city is nearby to flee to, and it is small. Do let me escape there. Is it not small, so that I will live?” ²¹And he said to him, “Very well, I also grant you this by not overthrowing the city of which you have spoken. ²²Escape there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” This is why he called the city Zoar. ²³The sun had risen on the land when Lot arrived in Zoar. ²⁴Then the Lord rained sulphur and fire on Sodom and on Gomorrah, from the Lord from heaven. ²⁵And he overthrew those cities, and the whole adjacent tract, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and the vegetation of the ground. ²⁶But his wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. ²⁷And Abraham rose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood in the presence of the Lord. ²⁸And he peered out over the landscape of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all the landscape of the adjacent tract, and he looked, and what he saw was the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace. ²⁹And it came to pass, after God had brought the cities of the tract of land to ruin, that God remembered Abraham, and he sent Lot from the scene of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived. ³⁰And Lot went up from Zoar and lived in the mountain, as did his two daughters with him, for he was afraid to live in Zoar, and he lived in a cave – he and his two daughters. ³¹Then the firstborn daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the land to come into us after the manner of the whole earth. ³²Come, let us give our father wine to drink and lie with him, and we will preserve seed from our father.” ³³So they gave their father wine to drink on that night, and the firstborn came and lay with her father, while he was unaware that she was lying with him or of her getting up again. ³⁴And it came to pass on the next day that the firstborn daughter said to the younger, “Look, last night I lay with my father. Let us give him wine to drink tonight as well, and you come and lie with him, and we will preserve seed from our father.” ³⁵So that night too they gave their father wine to drink and the younger daughter got up and lay with him, while he was unaware that she was lying with him or of her getting up again. ³⁶And the two daughters of Lot conceived from their father, ³⁷and the firstborn daughter gave birth to a son, and she called him Moab. He is the father of Moab to this day. ³⁸And the younger daughter also gave birth to a son, and she called him Ben-Ammi. He is the father of the sons of Ammon up to this day.