BERESHITH (GENESIS) 19

Gen 19:1 And the two messengers came to Seḏom in the evening, and Lot
was sitting in the gate of Seḏom. And when Lot saw them, he rose up to meet
them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground,
Gen 19:2 and he said, “Look, please my masters, please turn in to your
servant’s house and spend the night, and wash your feet, and rise early and go
your way.” And they said, “No, but let us spend the night in the open square.”
Gen 19:3 But he urged them strongly, and they turned in to him and came into
his house. And he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they
ate.
Gen 19:4 Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Seḏom, both
old and young, all the people from every part, surrounded the house.
Gen 19:5 And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who
came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, and let us ‘know’ them.”
Gen 19:6 So Lot went out to them through the doorway, and shut the door
behind him,
Gen 19:7 and said, “Please, my brothers, do not do evil!
Gen 19:8 “Look, please, I have two daughters who have not known a man.
Please, let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you wish, only do no
deed to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
Gen 19:9 But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This one came in to
sojourn, and should he always judge? Now we are going to treat you worse
than them.” So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break
down the door.
Gen 19:10 But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house
with them, and shut the door.
Gen 19:11 Then they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house
with blindness, both small and great, and they wearied themselves to find the
door.
Gen 19:12 And the men said to Lot, “Have you anyone else here? A son-in-
law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whomever you have in the city –
bring them out of this place!
Gen 19:13 “For we are going to destroy this place, because the cry against
them has grown great before the face of יהוה, and יהוה has sent us to destroy
it.”
Gen 19:14 And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married
his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place, for יהוה is going to
destroy this city!” But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be as one joking.
Gen 19:15 And when morning dawned, the messengers urged Lot to hurry,
saying, “Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest
you be consumed in the punishment of the city.”
Gen 19:16 And while he loitered, the men took hold of his hand, and his
wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, יהוה having compassion on
him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
Gen 19:17 And it came to be, when they had brought them outside, that he
said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the
plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed.”
Gen 19:18 And Lot said to them, “Oh no, יהוה !
Gen 19:19 “Look, please, your servant has found favour in your eyes, and
you have increased your kindness which you have shown me by saving my
life, but I am unable to escape to the mountains, lest calamity overtake me
and I die.
Gen 19:20 “Look, please, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is small.
Please let me escape there – is it not a small matter – and let my life be
saved?”
Gen 19:21 And He said to him, “Look, I have favoured you concerning this
matter also, without overthrowing this city for which you have spoken.
Gen 19:22 “Hurry, escape there. For I am not able to do any deed until you
arrive there.” So the name of the city was called Tso‛ar.
Gen 19:23 The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Tso‛ar.
Gen 19:24 And יהוה rained sulphur and fire on Seḏom and Amorah, from יהוה
out of the heavens.
Gen 19:25 So He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the
inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
Gen 19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a post
of salt.
Gen 19:27 And Aḇraham arose early in the morning and went to the place
where he had stood before יהוה,
Gen 19:28 and he looked toward Seḏom and Amorah, and toward all the
land of the plain. And he looked and saw the smoke of the land which went
up like the smoke of a furnace.
Gen 19:29 Thus it came to be, when Elohim destroyed the cities of the plain,
that Elohim remembered Aḇraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the
overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.
Gen 19:30 And Lot went up out of Tso‛ar and dwelt in the mountains, and
his two daughters were with him, for he was afraid to dwell in Tso‛ar. And
he and his two daughters dwelt in a cave.
Gen 19:31 And the first-born said to the younger, “Our father is old, and
there is no man on the earth to come in to us, as is the way of all the earth.
Gen 19:32 “Come, let us make our father drink wine and lie with him, so
that we preserve the seed of our father.”
Gen 19:33 So they made their father drink wine that night. And the first-born
went in and lay with her father, and he was not aware of it when she lay
down or when she arose.
Gen 19:34 And it came to be on the next day that the first-born said to the
younger, “See, I lay with my father last night. Let us make him drink wine
tonight as well, and you go in and lie with him, so that we keep the seed of
our father.”
Gen 19:35 So they made their father drink wine that night as well. And the
younger arose and lay with him, and he was not aware of it when she lay
down or when she arose.
Gen 19:36 Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.
Gen 19:37 And the first-born bore a son and called his name Mo’aḇ, he is
the father of the Mo’aḇites to this day.
Gen 19:38 And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-
Ammi, he is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.