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54 | Genesis 19:12
12 The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here — sons-in-law, sons or daugh
ters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? w Get them out of here, 13 because we
are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that
he has sent us to destroy it.” x
14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry a his daugh
ters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this p
lace, because the Lord is a
bout to destroy the
city! y ” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking. z
15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and
your two daughters who are here, or you will be s wept away a when the city is p
unished. b ”
16 When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two
daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them. 17 As soon
as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! c Don’t look back, d
and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”
18 But Lot said to them, “No, my lords, b please! 19 Your c servant has found favor in your c
eyes, and you c have s hown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the
mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die. 20 Look, here is a town near enough
to run to, and it is s mall. Let me flee to it — it is very s mall, i sn’t it? Then my life will be
spared.”
21 He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town
you s peak of. 22 But flee t here quickly, because I cannot do anything until you r each it.”
(That is why the town was called Zoar. d )
23 By the time Lot r eached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. 24 Then the Lord rained
down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah e — from the Lord out of the heavens. f
25 Thus he overthrew t hose cities and the entire p
lain, destroying all t hose living in the
cities — and also the vegetation in the land. g 26 But L
ot’s wife l ooked back, h and she be
came a pillar of salt. i
27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the p
lace where he had s tood
before the Lord. j 28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of
the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace. k
29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he
brought Lot out of the catastrophe l that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
19:12 w Ge 7:1
19:13 x 1Ch 21:15
19:14 y Nu 16:21
z Ex 9:21; Lk 17:28
19:15 a Nu 16:26
b Rev 18:4
19:17 c Jer 48:6
d ver 26
19:24 e Dt 29:23;
Isa 1:9; 13:19 f Lk 17:29;
2Pe 2:6; Jude 7
19:25 g Ps 107:34;
Eze 16:48
19:26 h ver 17 i Lk 17:32
19:27 j Ge 18:22
19:28 k Rev 9:2; 18:9
19:29 l 2Pe 2:7
19:30 m ver 19
Lot and His Daughters
30 Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, m for he was a
fraid to
stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters l ived in a cave. 31 One day the older daughter said to
the younger, “Our father is old, and t here is no man a
round here to give us children — as
is the custom all over the earth. 32 Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with
him and preserve our family line t hrough our father.”
33 That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and
slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
34 The next day the older daughter said to the younger,