Genesis 19
About Genesis Genesis tells of creation, the first sin, the flood, and God's promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph.
1And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;SelectedGenesis 19:1Ask
2And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I 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 ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.SelectedGenesis 19:2Ask
3And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.SelectedGenesis 19:3Ask
4But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:SelectedGenesis 19:4Ask
5And 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 we may know them.SelectedGenesis 19:5Ask
6And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,SelectedGenesis 19:6Ask
7And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.SelectedGenesis 19:7Ask
8Behold 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; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.SelectedGenesis 19:8Ask
9And they said, Stand back. And they said again, 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 came near to break the door.SelectedGenesis 19:9Ask
10But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.SelectedGenesis 19:10Ask
11And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.SelectedGenesis 19:11Ask
12And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:SelectedGenesis 19:12Ask
13For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.SelectedGenesis 19:13Ask
14And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.SelectedGenesis 19:14Ask
15And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.SelectedGenesis 19:15Ask
16And while he lingered, 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.SelectedGenesis 19:16Ask
17And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.SelectedGenesis 19:17Ask
18And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my LORD:SelectedGenesis 19:18Ask
19Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in 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 some evil take me, and I die:SelectedGenesis 19:19Ask
20Behold now, 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.SelectedGenesis 19:20Ask
21And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.SelectedGenesis 19:21Ask
22Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.SelectedGenesis 19:22Ask
23The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.SelectedGenesis 19:23Ask
24Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;SelectedGenesis 19:24Ask
25And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.SelectedGenesis 19:25Ask
26But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.SelectedGenesis 19:26Ask
27And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:SelectedGenesis 19:27Ask
28And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.SelectedGenesis 19:28Ask
29And 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.SelectedGenesis 19:29Ask
30And 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.SelectedGenesis 19:30Ask
31And 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 all the earth:SelectedGenesis 19:31Ask
32Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.SelectedGenesis 19:32Ask
33And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.SelectedGenesis 19:33Ask
34And 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.SelectedGenesis 19:34Ask
35And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.SelectedGenesis 19:35Ask
36Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.SelectedGenesis 19:36Ask
37And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.SelectedGenesis 19:37Ask
38And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.SelectedGenesis 19:38Ask
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