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or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the
mountains, or you will be swept away!”
18 “Oh no, my lord!” Lot begged. 19 “You have been
so gracious to me and saved my life, and you have
shown such great kindness. But I cannot go to the
mountains. Disaster would catch up to me there,
and I would soon die. 20 See, there is a small village
nearby. Please let me go there instead; don’t you
see how small it is? Then my life will be saved.”
21 “All right,” the angel said, “I will grant your
request. I will not destroy the little village. 22 But
hurry! Escape to it, for I can do nothing until you
arrive there.” (This explains why that village was
known as Zoar, which means “little place.”)
23 Lot reached the village just as the sun was
rising over the horizon. 24 Then the Lord rained
down fire and burning sulfur from the sky on
Sodom and Gomorrah. 25 He utterly destroyed
them, along with the other cities and villages of
the plain, wiping out all the people and every bit
of vegetation. 26 But Lot’s wife looked back as she
was following behind him, and she turned into
a pillar of salt.
27Abraham got up early that morning and
hurried out to the place where he had stood
in the Lord’s presence. 28 He looked out across
the plain toward Sodom and Gomorrah and
watched as columns of smoke rose from the
cities like smoke from a furnace.
29 But God had listened to Abraham’s request
and kept Lot safe, removing him from the disaster that engulfed the cities on the plain.
Lot and His Daughters • GENESIS 19:30-38
30Afterward Lot left Zoar because he was afraid
of the people there, and he went to live in a cave
in the mountains with his two daughters. 31 One
day the older daughter said to her sister, “There
are no men left anywhere in this entire area,
so we can’t get married like everyone else. And
our father will soon be too old to have children.
32 Come, let’s get him drunk with wine, and then
we will have sex with him. That way we will preserve our family line through our father.”
33 So that night they got him drunk with wine,
and the older daughter went in and had intercourse with her father. He was unaware of her
lying down or getting up again.
34 The next morning the older daughter said
to her younger sister, “I had sex with our father last night. Let’s get him drunk with wine
again tonight, and you go in and have sex with
him. That way we will preserve our family line
DIVIDED
KINGDOM
19:10 Hebrew men; also in 19:12, 16.
KINGDOM
EXODUS
PATRIARCH
PATRIARCH
CREATION
“come to my home to wash your feet, and be my
guests for the night. You may then get up early
in the morning and be on your way again.”
“Oh no,” they replied. “We’ll just spend the
night out here in the city square.”
3 But Lot insisted, so at last they went home
with him. Lot prepared a feast for them, complete with fresh bread made without yeast, and
they ate. 4 But before they retired for the night,
all the men of Sodom, young and old, came
from all over the city and surrounded the house.
5 They shouted to Lot, “Where are the men who
came to spend the night with you? Bring them
out to us so we can have sex with them!”
6 So Lot stepped outside to talk to them, shutting the door behind him. 7 “Please, my brothers,”
he begged, “don’t do such a wicked thing. 8 Look,
I have two virgin daughters. Let me bring them
out to you, and you can do with them as you
wish. But please, leave these men alone, for they
are my guests and are under my protection.”
9 “Stand back!” they shouted. “This fellow
came to town as an outsider, and now he’s acting like our judge! We’ll treat you far worse than
those other men!” And they lunged toward Lot
to break down the door.
10 But the two angels* reached out, pulled Lot
into the house, and bolted the door. 11 Then they
blinded all the men, young and old, who were
at the door of the house, so they gave up trying
to get inside.
12 Meanwhile, the angels questioned Lot. “Do
you have any other relatives here in the city?”
they asked. “Get them out of this place—your
sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone else. 13For
we are about to destroy this city completely. The
outcry against this place is so great it has reached
the Lord, and he has sent us to destroy it.”
14 So Lot rushed out to tell his daughters’ fiancés, “Quick, get out of the city! The Lord is about
to destroy it.” But the young men thought he
was only joking.
15 At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. “Hurry,” they said to Lot. “Take
your wife and your two daughters who are here.
Get out right now, or you will be swept away in
the destruction of the city!”
16 When Lot still hesitated, the angels seized
his hand and the hands of his wife and two
daughters and rushed them to safety outside
the city, for the Lord was merciful. 17 When they
were safely out of the city, one of the angels ordered, “Run for your lives! And don’t look back
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CONQUEST
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