Gênesis 19

¹ And there came twoIn which we see God's provident care in preserving his: even though he does not reveal himself to all alike: for Lot had but two angels, and Abraham three.angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing [them] rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

² And he saide, See my Lords, I pray you turne in nowe into your seruants house, and tarie all night, and wash your feete, & ye shall rise vp early and goe your wayes. Who saide, Nay, but we will abide in the streete all night.

³ AndThat is, he begged them so insistently.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 theyNot because they had need, but because the time was not yet come for them to reveal themselves.did eat.

⁴ But before they lay down, the men of the city, [even] the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young,Nothing is more dangerous than to live where sin reigns: for it corrupts all.all the people from every quarter:

⁵ Who crying vnto Lot said to him, Where are the men, which came to thee this night? Bring them out vnto vs that we may knowe them.

⁶ Then Lot went out at the doore vnto them, and shut the doore after him,

⁷ And said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly.

⁸ Behold now, I have twoHe deserves praise for defending his guests, but he is to be blamed for seeking unlawful means.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;That I should preserve them from all injury.for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

⁹ Then they said, Away hence, and they said, He is come alone as a stranger, and shall he iudge and rule? We will nowe deale worse with thee then with them. So they preassed sore vpon Lot himselfe, and came to breake the doore.

¹⁰ But the men put forth their hand and pulled Lot into the house to them & shut to ye doore.

¹¹ Then they smote the men that were at the doore of the house with blindnes both small and great, so that they were wearie in seeking the doore.

¹² Then the men said vnto Lot, Whom hast thou yet here? Either sonne in lawe, or thy sonnes, or thy daughters, or whatsoeuer thou hast in the citie, bring it out of this place.

¹³ ForThis proves that the angels are ministers, both to execute God's wrath and to declare his favour.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.

¹⁴ Then Lot went out and spake vnto his sonnes in lawe, which maried his daughters, and said, Arise, get you out of this place: for the Lord will destroy the citie: but he seemed to his sonnes in lawe as though he had mocked.

¹⁵ And when the morning arose, the Angels hasted Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife and thy two daughters which are here, lest thou be destroyed in the punishment of the citie.

¹⁶ And while heThe mercy of God strives to overcome man's slowness in following God's calling.lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

¹⁷ And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life;He willed him to flee God's judgments and not to be sorry to leave that rich country, full of vain pleasures.look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

¹⁸ And Lot saide vnto them, Not so, I pray thee, my Lord.

¹⁹ Behold now, thy seruant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercie, which thou hast shewed vnto me in sauing my life: and I cannot escape in the mountaine, least some euill take me, and I die.

²⁰ Behold now, this city [is] near to flee unto, and it [is] a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, ([is] it not aThough it is little, yet it is great enough to save my life: in which he errs by choosing another place than the angel had appointed him.little one?) and my soul shall live.

²¹ Then he said vnto him, Beholde, I haue receiued thy request also concerning this thing, that I will not ouerthrow this citie, for the which thou hast spoken.

²² Haste thee, escape thither; for IBecause God's commandment was to destroy the city and to save Lot.cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was calledWhich before was called Belah, in (Gen_14:2).Zoar.

²³ The sunne did rise vpon the earth, when Lot entred into Zoar.

²⁴ Then the Lord rained vpon Sodom and vpon Gomorah brimstone, & fire from the Lord out of heauen,

²⁵ And ouerthrewe those cities and all the plaine, and all the inhabitants of the cities; and that that grewe vpon the earth.

²⁶ But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became aConcerning the body only: this was a notable monument of God's vengeance to all who passed that way.pillar of salt.

²⁷ And Abraham rising vp earely in ye morning went to the place, where he had stand before the Lord,

²⁸ And looking towarde Sodom and Gomorah and toward all the land of the plaine, behold, he sawe the smoke of the lande mounting vp as the smoke of a fornace.

²⁹ But yet when God destroyed the cities of the plaine, God thought vpon Abraham, and sent Lot out from the middes of the destruction, when he ouerthrewe the cities, wherein Lot dwelled.

³⁰ And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for heHaving felt God's mercy, he did not dare provoke him again by continuing among the wicked.feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

³¹ And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father [is] old, and [there is] not a man in theMeaning in the country which the Lord had now destroyed.earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

³² Come, let us make our fatherFor unless he had been drunk, he would never have done that abominable act.drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

³³ So they made their father drinke wine that night, and the elder went and lay with her father: but he perceiued not, neither whe she lay downe, neither when she rose vp.

³⁴ And on the morowe the elder saide to the yonger, Behold, yester night lay I with my father: let vs make him drinke wine this night also, and goe thou and lie with him, that we may preserue seede of our father.

³⁵ So they made their father drinke wine that night also, and the yonger arose, & lay with him, but he perceiued not, when she lay downe, neither when she rose vp.

³⁶ Thus wereThus God permitted him to fall most horribly in the solitary mountains, whom the wickedness of Sodom could not overcome.both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

³⁷ And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same [is] the father of theWho as they were born in most horrible incest, so were they and their posterity vile and wicked.Moabites unto this day.

³⁸ And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his nameThat is, son of my people: signifying that they rejoiced in their sin, rather than repenting of it.Benammi: the same [is] the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.