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The
Doom of Sodom |
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Genesis 19:1
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Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening
as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them
and bowed down with his face to the ground. |
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Genesis 19:2
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And he said, "Now behold, my lords, please turn
aside into your servant's house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then
you may rise early and go on your way." They said however, "No, but we shall spend
the night in the square." |
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Genesis 19:3
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Yet he urged them strongly, so they turned aside
to him and entered his house; and he prepared a feast for them, and baked unleavened
bread, and they ate. |
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Genesis 19:4
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Before they lay down, the men of the city, the
men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every
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Genesis 19:5
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and they called to Lot and said to him, "Where
are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have relations
with them." |
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Genesis 19:6
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But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and
shut the door behind him, |
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Genesis 19:7
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and said, "Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly. |
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Genesis 19:8
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"Now behold, I have two daughters who have not
had relations with man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever
you like; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shelter
of my roof." |
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Genesis 19:9
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But they said, "Stand aside." Furthermore, they
said, "This one came in as an alien, and already he is acting like a judge; now
we will treat you worse than them." So they pressed hard against Lot and came
near to break the door. |
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Genesis 19:10
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But the men reached out their hands and brought
Lot into the house with them, and shut the door. |
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Genesis 19:11
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They struck the men who were at the doorway
of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves
trying to find the doorway. |
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Genesis 19:12
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Then the two men said to Lot, "Whom else have
you here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whomever you have
in the city, bring them out of the place; |
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Genesis 19:13
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for we are about to destroy this place, because
their outcry has become so great before the LORD that the LORD has sent us to
destroy it." |
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Genesis 19:14
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Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who
were to marry his daughters, and said, "Up, get out of this place, for the LORD
will destroy the city." But he appeared to his sons-in-law to be jesting. |
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Genesis 19:15
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When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying,
"Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept
away in the punishment of the city." |
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Genesis 19:16
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But he hesitated. So the men seized his hand
and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, for the compassion
of the LORD was upon him; and they brought him out, and put him outside the city.
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Genesis 19:17
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When they had brought them outside, one said,
"Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the
valley; escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away." |
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Genesis 19:18
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But Lot said to them, "Oh no, my lords! |
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Genesis 19:19
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"Now behold, your servant has found favor in
your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindness, which you have shown me
by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, for the disaster will
overtake me and I will die; |
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Genesis 19:20
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now behold, this town is near enough to flee
to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) that my life
may be saved." |
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Genesis 19:21
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He said to him, "Behold, I grant you this request
also, not to overthrow the town of which you have spoken. |
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Genesis 19:22
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"Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything
until you arrive there." Therefore the name of the town was called Zoar. |
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Genesis 19:23
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The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came
to Zoar. |
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Genesis 19:24
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Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone
and fire from the LORD out of heaven, |
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Genesis 19:25
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and He overthrew those cities, and all the valley,
and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. |
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Genesis 19:26
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But his wife, from behind him, looked back,
and she became a pillar of salt. |
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Genesis 19:27
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Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went
to the place where he had stood before the LORD; |
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Genesis 19:28
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and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah,
and toward all the land of the valley, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the
land ascended like the smoke of a furnace. |
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Genesis 19:29
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Thus it came about, when God destroyed the cities
of the valley, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the
overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived. |
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Lot
Is Debased |
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Genesis 19:30
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Lot went up from Zoar, and stayed in the mountains,
and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; and he stayed
in a cave, he and his two daughters. |
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Genesis 19:31
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Then the firstborn said to the younger, "Our
father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner
of the earth. |
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Genesis 19:32
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"Come, let us make our father drink wine, and
let us lie with him that we may preserve our family through our father." |
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Genesis 19:33
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So they made their father drink wine that night,
and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; and he did not know when she
lay down or when she arose. |
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Genesis 19:34
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On the following day, the firstborn said to
the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine
tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve our family
through our father." |
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Genesis 19:35
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So they made their father drink wine that night
also, and the younger arose and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay
down or when she arose. |
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Genesis 19:36
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Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child
by their father. |
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Genesis 19:37
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The firstborn bore a son, and called his name
Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day. |
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Genesis 19:38
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As for the younger, she also bore a son, and
called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day. |
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