Genesis 19:1–14

And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground.

²And said: I beseech you, my lords, turn in to the house of your servant, and lodge there: wash your feet, and in the morning you shall go on your way. And they said: No, but we will abide in the street.

³He pressed them very much to turn in unto him: and when they were come into his house, he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate:

⁴But before they went to bed, the men of the city beset the house, both young and old, all the people together.

⁵And they called Lot, and said to him: Where are the men that came in to thee at night? bring them out hither, that we may know them:

⁶Lot went out to them, and shut the door after him, and said:

⁷Do not so, I beseech you, my brethren, do not commit this evil.

⁸I have two daughters who, as yet, have not known man; I will bring them out to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so that you do no evil to these men, because they are come in under the shadow of my roof.

⁹But they said: Get thee back thither. And again: Thou camest in, said they, as a stranger, was it to be a judge? therefore we will afflict thee more than them. And they pressed very violently upon Lot: and they were even at the point of breaking open the doors.

¹⁰And behold the men put out their hand, and drew in Lot unto them, and shut the door.

¹¹And them, that were without, they struck with blindness from the least to the greatest, so that they could not find the door.

¹²And they said to Lot: Hast thou here any of thine? son in law, or sons, or daughters, all that are thine bring them out of this city:

¹³For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud before the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them.

¹⁴So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.