1 And two of the messengers came toward Sodom at evening, and Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot saw, and rose to meet them, and bowed himself—face to the earth, 2 and he said, “Now look, my lords, please turn aside to the house of your servant, and lodge, and wash your feet—then you have risen early and gone on your way”. And they said, “No, but we lodge in the broad place.” 3 And he presses on them greatly, and they turned aside to him, and come into his house. And he made a banquet for them, and had baked unleavened things. And they ate. 4 Before they lay down, the men of the city—men of Sodom—had surrounded the house, from young even to aged, all the people from the extremity. 5 And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who had come to you tonight? Bring them out to us, and we know them.” 6 And Lot goes out to them, to the opening, and the door has shut behind him, 7 and said, “Please, my brothers, do not do evil. 8 Now look, I have two daughters who have not known anyone. Please let me bring them out to you, and do to them as is good in your eyes. Only do nothing to these men, for therefore they have come in within the shadow of my roof.” 9 And they said, “Come near here”. They also said, “This one had come to sojourn, and he certainly judges! Now, we do evil to you more than to them”. And they pressed against the man, against Lot greatly, and came near to break the door. 10 And the men put out their hand, and brought in Lot to them, into the house, and had shut the door. 11 And the men who were at the opening of the house they were struck with blindness, from small even to great, and they weary themselves to find the opening. 12 And the men said to Lot, “Whom have you here still? Son-in-law, your sons also, and your daughters, and all whom you have in the city, bring out from this place. 13 For we are destroying this place, for their cry has been great before the face of YHWH, and YHWH does send us to destroy it.” 14 And Lot goes out and spoke to his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and said, “Rise, go out from this place, for YHWH is destroying the city”. And he was as one mocking in the eyes of his sons-in-law. 15 And when the dawn had ascended, then the messengers pressed on Lot, saying, “Rise, take your wife, and your two daughters who are found present, lest you are consumed in the iniquity of the city.” 16 And he lingered, 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 YHWH to him, and they brought him out, and caused him to rest outside the city. 17 And it came to pass, when he had brought them outside, that he said, “Escape for your life. Do not look behind you, nor stand in all the circuit. Escape to the mountain, lest you are consumed.” 18 And Lot said to them, “Oh not so, my lord. 19 Now look, your servant has found grace in your eyes, and you make great your kindness which you have done with me by saving my life, and I am unable to escape to the mountain, lest the evil cleave to me and I will die. 20 Now look, this city is near to flee there, and it is little. Please let me escape there (is it not little?) that my soul may live.” 21 And he said to him, “Look, I have also accepted your face for this thing, without overthrowing the city for which you have spoken. 22 Hurry, escape there, for I am not able to do anything until your entering there”. Therefore he called the name of the city Zoar. 23 The sun had gone out on the earth, and Lot had entered into Zoar, 24 and YHWH had rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah brimstone and fire from YHWH, from the heavens. 25 And He overthrew these cities, and all the circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which was shooting up from the ground. 26 And his wife looked from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt! 27 And Abraham rose early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the face of YHWH. 28 And he looked on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the face of the land of the circuit, and saw, and look, the smoke of the land went up as smoke of the furnace. 29 And it came to pass, in God’s destroying the cities of the circuit, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow in the overthrowing of the cities in which Lot stayed. 30 And Lot goes up out of Zoar, and stayed in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he had been afraid of staying in Zoar, and he stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters. 31 And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us, as was the way of all the earth. 32 Come, we cause our father to drink wine, and lie with him, and preserve a seed from our father.” 33 And they caused their father to drink wine on that night. And the firstborn goes in and lay with her father, and he had not known in her lying down or in her rising up. 34 And it came to pass, on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I have lain with my father last night: we also cause him to drink wine tonight, then go in, lie with him, and we will preserve a seed from our father.” 35 And they caused their father to drink wine on that night also, and the younger rose and lay with him, and he had not known in her lying down or in her rising up. 36 And the two daughters of Lot conceived from their father, 37 and the firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab: he is father of Moab to this day. 38 As for the younger, she had also born a son and called his name Ben-Ammi: he is father of the sons of Ammon to this day.