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          DASV: Genesis 19    

1 The two angels came to Sodom, in the evening,
as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom.
When Lot saw them, he stood up to meet them and bowed
with his face to the ground.
2 He said, "My lords, turn aside to your servant's house,
and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you can get up
early and be on your way." "No," they replied "we will spend the
night in the city square."
3 But he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered
his house. He made a feast for them, baking unleavened bread, and
they ate.
4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom,
both young and old, from every part of the city surrounded the house.
5 Then they called to Lot, "Where are the men that came to you tonight?
Bring them out to us, so that we can have sex with them."
6 But Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him.
7 and said, "I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.
8 Look, I have two daughters that have not known a man; please
let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them as you wish.
Only do not do anything to these men, for they have come under
the protection of my roof."
9 Then they retorted, "Stand back." And they said, "This fellow
came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to judge us.
Now we will deal worse with you, than with them." And they pressed
in hard against Lot to break the door down.
10 But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house
with them and shut the door.
11 Then they struck the men at the door of the house with blindness,
both small and great, so that they wore themselves out trying
to find the door.

12 Then the men said to Lot, "Do you have anyone else here?
Do you have any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone else
in the city? Get them out of this place.
13 For we will destroy this place, since the outcry against this
place has become great before the LORD, so the LORD sent us to
destroy it."
14 Then Lot went and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were going to
marry his daughters, and said, "Get up and get out of this place,
for the LORD is about to destroy the city." But he seemed to his
sons-in-law to be joking.
15 The next morning the angels hurried Lot along, saying, "Get up,
take your wife, and your two daughters that are here, lest you be
swept away in the punishment of this city."
16 But he hesitated, so the men grabbed his hand, and the hand of
his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, the LORD being
merciful to him, and they brought him out and put him outside
the city.
17 When they had brought them out, one of them said, "Escape
for your life. Do not look back or stay anywhere in the plain.
Escape to the mountains or you will be swept away."
18 But Lot said to them, "No, please, my lords.
19 Look now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have
shown me great kindness by saving my life, but I cannot escape to the
mountains or disaster will overtake me and I will die.
20 Look, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is a small one.
Let me escape there--is it not a little one?--and my life shall be saved."
21 And he said to him, "Alright, I will grant you this favor also,
and I will not overthrow the town which you have spoken of.
22 But hurry, escape there; for I cannot do anything until you
arrive there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
23 The sun was rising on the land as Lot reached Zoar.

24 Then the LORD rained down on Sodom and on Gomorrah burning
sulfur and fire from the LORD out of heaven.
25 So he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the
inhabitants of the cities, and even the vegetation that grew upon the ground.
26 But his wife, behind him, looked back, and she turned into a pillar
of salt.
27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and went to the place
where he had stood before the LORD.
28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land
of the plain, and the smoke rose from the land like the smoke from a furnace.
29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, then God remembered
Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the destruction,
when he destroyed the cities in which Lot lived.

30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountains,
with his two daughters; for he feared to live in Zoar.
So he and his two daughter lived in a cave.
31 Then the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old,
and there is no man in the earth to marry us as is customary
throughout all the earth.
32 Come, let us get our father drunk, and we will lie with him,
so that we may preserve the family line of our father."
33 So they got their father drunk that night. Then the firstborn
went in, and slept with her father; and he was unaware of when she
lay down and when she got up.
34 The next day, the firstborn said to the younger, "Last night
I slept with my father; let us get him drunk again tonight and you
go and sleep with him, that we may preserve the family line of our father."
35 So they got their father drunk that night too, and the younger arose,
and slept with him; and he was unaware of when she lay down, and when she got up.
36 Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.
37 And the firstborn bare a son, and named him Moab. He is the father
of the Moabites to this day.
38 And the younger, also bore a son, and named him Ben-ammi.
He is the father of the Ammonites to this day.

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