Genesis 18–19

18And the Lord appeared unto him in the ^aplains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; ²And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, ^bthree men stood by him: ^cand when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, ³And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: ⁴Let ^da little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: ⁵And ^eI will fetch a morsel of bread, and ^†comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: ^ffor therefore ^†are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said. ⁶And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, ^†Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. ⁷And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it. ⁸And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. ⁹And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, ^gin the tent. ¹⁰And he said, I will certainly return unto thee ^haccording to the time of life; and, lo, ⁱSarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him. ¹¹Now ^kAbraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah ^lafter the manner of women. ¹²Therefore Sarah ^mlaughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my ⁿlord being old also? ¹³And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old? ^14oIs any thing too hard for the Lord? ^pAt the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. ¹⁵Then Sarah ^qdenied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.

¹⁶And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them ^rto bring them on the way. ¹⁷And the Lord said, ^sShall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; ¹⁸Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be ^tblessed in him? ¹⁹For I know him, ^uthat he will command his children and his ^whousehold after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. ²⁰And the Lord said, Because ^xthe cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; ^21yI will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, ^zI will know. ²²And the men turned their faces from thence, ^aand went toward Sodom: but Abraham ^bstood yet before the Lord.

²³And Abraham ^cdrew near, and said, ^dWilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? ²⁴Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? ²⁵That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and ^ethat the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: ^fShall not the Judge of all the earth do right? ²⁶And the Lord said, ^gIf I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. ²⁷And Abraham answered and said, ^hBehold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but ⁱdust and ashes: ²⁸Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. ²⁹And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty’s sake. ³⁰And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. ³¹And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake. ³²And he said, ^kOh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake. ³³And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

19And there ^acame two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and ^bLot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; ²And he said, Behold now, my lords, ^cturn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and ^dwash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, ^eNay; but we will abide in the street all night. ³And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. ⁴But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: ^5fAnd they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? ^gbring them out unto us, that we ^hmay know them. ⁶And ⁱLot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, ⁷And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. ^8kBehold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; ^lfor therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. ⁹And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow ^mcame in to sojourn, ⁿand he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. ¹⁰But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. ¹¹And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with ^oblindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door. ¹²And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, ^pbring them out of this place: ¹³For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it. ¹⁴And Lot went out, and spake unto his ^qsons in law, which married his daughters, and said, ^rUp, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law. ¹⁵And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which ^†are here; lest thou be consumed in the ^||iniquity of the city. ¹⁶And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; ^sthe Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. ¹⁷And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; ^tlook not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. ¹⁸And Lot said unto them, Oh, ^unot so, my Lord: ¹⁹Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die: ²⁰Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. ²¹And he said unto him, See, ^wI have accepted ^†thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken. ²²Haste thee, escape thither; for ^xI cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore ^ythe name of the city was called ^||Zoar. ²³The sun was ^†risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. ²⁴Then ^zthe Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; ²⁵And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. ²⁶But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became ^aa pillar of salt. ²⁷And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where ^bhe stood before the Lord: ²⁸And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, ^cthe smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. ²⁹And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God ^dremembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

³⁰And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the ^emountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. ³¹And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: ³²Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. ³³And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. ³⁴And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. ³⁵And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. ³⁶Thus were both the daughters of Lot with…