Genesis 19:1–16

¹And two of the messengers come towards Sodom at even, and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot seeth, and riseth to meet them, and boweth himself—face to the earth, ²and he saith, ‘Lo, I pray you, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, unto the house of your servant, and lodge, and wash your feet—then ye have risen early and gone on your way;’ and they say, ‘Nay, but in the broad place we do lodge.’ ³And he presseth on them greatly, and they turn aside unto him, and come in unto his house; and he maketh for them a banquet, and hath baked unleavened things; and they do eat.

⁴Before they lie down, the men of the city—men of Sodom—have come round about against the house, from young even unto aged, all the people from the extremity; ⁵and they call unto Lot and say to him, ‘Where are the men who have come in unto thee to-night? bring them out unto us, and we know them.’ ⁶And Lot goeth out unto them, to the opening, and the door hath shut behind him, ⁷and saith, ‘Do not, I pray you, my brethren, do evil; ⁸lo, I pray you, I have two daughters, who have not known any one; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do to them as is good in your eyes; only to these men do not anything, for therefore have they come in within the shadow of my roof.’ ⁹And they say, ‘Come nigh hither;’ they say also, ‘This one hath come in to sojourn, and he certainly judgeth! now, we do evil to thee more than to them;’ and they press against the man, against Lot greatly, and come nigh to break the door. ¹⁰And the men put forth their hand, and bring in Lot unto them, into the house, and have shut the door; ¹¹and the men who are at the opening of the house they have smitten with blindness, from small even unto great, and they weary themselves to find the opening.

¹²And the men say unto Lot, ‘Whom hast thou here still? son-in-law, thy sons also, and thy daughters, and all whom thou hast in the city, bring out from this place; ¹³for we are destroying this place, for their cry hath been great before the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth send us to destroy it.’ ¹⁴And Lot goeth out, and speaketh unto his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and saith, ‘Rise, go out from this place, for Jehovah is destroying the city;’ and he is as one mocking in the eyes of his sons-in-law.

¹⁵And when the dawn hath ascended, then the messengers press upon Lot, saying, ‘Rise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters who are found present, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.’ ¹⁶And he lingereth, and the men lay hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, through the mercy of Jehovah unto him, and they bring him out, and cause him to rest without the city.