Verses from Genesis 19 from the book of Genesis in the Bible.
Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed
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The two angels arrived in Sodom at dusk, and Lot was sitting at the city gate. When he saw them, he got up and went to meet them. He prostrated himself with his face to the ground
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and said: “My lords, please accompany me to your servant’s house. There you can wash your feet, spend the night and, in the morning, go on your way.”
“No, we will spend the night in the square”, they replied.
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But he insisted on them so much that finally they accompanied him and entered his house. Lot had a meal prepared for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate it.
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They had not yet gone to bed, when all the men from every part of the city of Sodom, from the youngest to the oldest, surrounded the house.
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They called Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to your house tonight? Bring them to us outside so that we can have relations with them.”
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Lot left the house, closed the door behind him
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and said to them, “No, my friends! Don’t do this wicked thing!
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Look, I have two daughters who are still virgins. I will bring them so that you can do with them whatever you want. But do nothing to these men, because they are under the protection of my roof.”
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“Get out of the way!” they shouted. And they said, “This man came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to be the judge! We will do worse to you than to them.” Then they pushed Lot violently and went forward to break down the door.
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Then the two visitors grabbed Lot, pulled him inside and closed the door.
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Then they struck the men at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, with blindness, so that they could not find the door.
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The two men asked Lot, “Do you have anyone else in the city – sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or any other relatives? Get them out of here,
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because we are about to destroy this place. The accusations made against the Lord against these people are so great that he sent us to destroy the city.”
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Then Lot went to talk to his sons-in-law, who were going to marry his daughters, and said to them: “Leave this place immediately, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But they thought he was joking.
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At daybreak, the angels urged Lot, saying: “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters from here, or you too will be killed when the city is punished.”
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When he hesitated, the men grabbed him by the hand, as well as his wife and two daughters, and took them away by force and left them outside the city, because the Lord had mercy on them.
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As soon as they had taken them out of the city, one of them said to Lot, “Flee for the love of your life! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be killed!”
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But Lot said to them, “No, my lord!
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Your servant was favored by your benevolence, for you were kind to me, sparing my life. I cannot flee to the mountains, otherwise this calamity will fall upon me, and I will die.
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Nearby there is a small town. It’s so close you can run there. Let me go there! Even though I’m so small, I’ll be safe there.”
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“Okay,” he replied. “I will also grant you this request; I will not destroy the city of which you speak.
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Run away quickly, because I can’t do anything until you get there.” That’s why the city was called Zoar.
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When Lot arrived in Zoar, the sun had already risen over the land.
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Then the Lord, the Lord himself, rained fire and sulfur from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.
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So he destroyed those cities and the entire plain, with all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation.
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But Lot’s wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt.
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The next morning, Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord.
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And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward the whole plain, and he saw thick smoke rising from the earth, like smoke from a furnace.
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When God razed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham and took Lot out of the midst of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where Lot lived.
Lot and his daughters
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Lot left Zoar with his two daughters and lived in the mountains because he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.
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