which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. And the men turned from thence, and 22 went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. And Abraham drew near, 23 and said, Wilt thou consume the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty 24 righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from 25 thee to do after this manner, manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty 26 righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake. And Abraham 27 answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: peradventure there shall lack 28 five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five. And he spake unto him yet again, and said, 29 Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty's sake. And he said, Oh let not the Lord be 30 angry, and I will speak: peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. And he 31 said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake. And he said, 32 Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake. And the LORD went his 33 way, as soon as he had left communing with

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And the two angels came to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth; 2 and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn aside, pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. 3 And he urged them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened 4 bread, and they did eat. But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every 5 quarter; and they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that 6 we may know them. And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut the door after 7 him. And he said, I pray you, my brethren, 8 do not so wickedly. Behold now, I have two 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; 'forasmuch as they are 9 come under the shadow of my roof. And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the 10 door. But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut I to the door. And they smote the men that

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were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door. And the men 12 said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whomsoever thou hast in the city; bring them out of the place: for we will destroy this place, 13 because the cry of them is waxen great before the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. And Lot went out, and spake unto 14 his sons in law, which 'married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy the city. But he seemed unto his sons in law as one that mocked. And 15 when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters which are here; lest thou be 2 Or, punish consumed in the 'iniquity of the city. But he 16 lingered; and 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. And it came to 17 pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not 3 See ch. xiii. behind thee, neither stay thou in all the 'Plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. Or, O Lord And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my lord: 18 behold now, thy servant hath found grace in 19 thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest "Or, the evil evil overtake me, and I die: behold now, 20 this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. And he said 21 unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the

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22 city of which thou hast spoken. Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of The sun was risen 23 the city was called 'Zoar.

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upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar. See ch. xiv. 8. 24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD 25 out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. 26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and 27 she became a pillar of salt. And Abraham gat

up early in the morning to the place where he 28 had stood before the LORD: and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

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And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he 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 the earth to come in unto us after the manner of 32 all the earth: come, let us make our father

drink wine, and we will lie with him, that 33 we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he knew not when she lay down, 34 nor when she arose. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto

the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that 35 night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose. Thus were both the daugh- 36 ters of Lot with child by their father. And the 37 firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. And the younger, she also bare a son, 38 and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

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And Abraham journeyed from thence toward i 20 the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar. And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is 2 my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. But God came to Abimelech 3 in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, because of the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife. Now Abimelech had not come near her: and 4 he said, Lord, wilt thou slay even a righteous nation? Said he not himself unto me, She is 5 my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I done this. And God said unto him in the dream, Yea, I 6 know that in the integrity of thy heart thou hast done this, and I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. Now therefore restore the man's 7 wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine. And Abimelech 8