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—the men of the city from the young to the old, all the people together. * And they called to Lot outside, and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them." * And Lot went out to them to the door, and locked the door behind him. * And he said to them, "Far be it from you, brothers, do not commit this evil. * I have two daughters who have not known a man; I will bring them out to you, and do to them as is pleasing to you, but only do nothing to these men, because they have entered under the shadow of my beams." * And they said, "Stand aside. You came in to dwell as a sojourner; would you now also judge the judgment? Now we will treat you worse than them." And they pressed the man Lot hard, and were close to breaking the door. * And the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house, and shut the doors of the house. * And the men who were at the door of the house were struck with blindness from the small to the great; and they grew weary of seeking the door. * And the men said to Lot, "Have you anyone here, a son-in-law, or sons, or daughters, or anyone else of yours in this city? Take them out of this place. * For we are about to destroy this city, because the outcry against them has risen before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it." * And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were to take his daughters, and said, "Rise, leave this place, for the Lord is destroying the city." But it seemed to his sons-in-law as if he were joking. * And when morning came, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Rise, take your wife and your two daughters whom you have, and leave this place, so that you also may not perish with the iniquity of the city." * And they were troubled, and the angels took hold of his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hand of his two daughters, because the Lord had pity on him; and they brought him out and set him outside the city. * And it happened when they brought them outside, they said, "Save your life, do not look back, and do not stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be caught with them." * And Lot said to them, "I pray you, Lord, * because your servant has found mercy before you, and you have made your righteousness great, which you do for me to save my life. But I cannot escape to the mountain, lest evils overtake me, and I die. * Behold, this city is near to flee to, which is small; I will escape there—and is it not small—and my life shall be saved." * And He said to him, "Behold, I have granted you this favor regarding your face, not to destroy the city for which you spoke. * And now, hurry to escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there." Therefore he called the name of that city Zoar. * The sun had risen on the earth, and Lot entered Zoar. * And the Lord rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven. * And He destroyed those cities, and all the surrounding regions, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and all the vegetation of the earth. * And Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. * And Abraham rose early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord. * And he looked toward the faces of the Sodomites and Gomorrahites, and toward all the faces of the land of the plain, and he saw, and behold, flame went up from the earth like the smoke of a furnace. * And it happened when the Lord destroyed all those cities surrounding the settlements, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out from the midst of the destruction, when the Lord destroyed the cities in which Lot had lived. * And Lot went up from Zoar and sat in the mountain, and both his daughters with him, because he was afraid to live in Zoar; and he lived in a cave there, he and his two daughters with him. * And the elder said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no one on earth to come in to us, as is the custom of all the earth. * Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him, and let us raise up offspring from our father." * And they made their father drink wine that night, and the elder went in and slept with her father that night; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. * And it happened on the following day, and the elder said to the younger, "Behold, I slept last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and sleep with him, and let us raise up offspring from our father." * And they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger went in and slept with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. * And both of Lot's daughters conceived by their father. * And the elder bore a son, and called his name Moab; she said, "From my father." He is the father of the Moabites until this day. * The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ammon; she said, "Son of my people." He is the father of the Ammonites until this day.

CH. 20

And Abraham moved from there to the land of the south, and lived between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar. * And Abraham said concerning Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abimelech, king of the Gerarites, sent and took Sarah. * And God came to Abimelech in a vision of the night and said, "Behold, you are dying because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife." * But Abimelech had not approached her, and said, "Lord, will you destroy an ignorant and righteous nation? * Did he not say to me, 'She is my sister,' and she said to me, 'He is my brother'? In the purity of my heart and righteousness of my hands I have done this." * And God said to him in the vision, "I knew that you did this in the purity of your heart, and I had pity on you not to sin against me; therefore I did not give you permission to approach her. * But release the woman to her husband, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you shall live; but if you do not, know that you shall die, you and all that is yours." * And Abimelech rose early in the morning and called all his servants, and spoke all these words in their ears, and all the men were very much afraid. * And Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? Have I sinned against you, that you have brought upon me and upon my kingdom great sins? You have done a work that no one should do to me." * And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see that you did this thing?" * And Abraham said, "Because I said, perhaps there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife. * But truly, she is my sister by my father and not by my mother, and she became my wife. * And it happened when God led me out of my father's house, and I said to her, 'This righteousness you shall do for me: in every place where we go, say of me that he is my brother.'" * And Abimelech took a thousand—

(5) Others: "And they said to him." (8) Some: "Do nothing evil." (9) Others: "Breaking the doors." (12) Some: "And anyone of yours there, a son-in-law." (12) Some: "Or anyone else who is yours." (13) Some: "For we are about to destroy the city." (15) Others: "With the iniquity of the city." (18) Some: "But I have not seen my..." (19) Some: "Lest evils overtake me." (24) Some: "And the Lord rained on Sodom..." (29) Others: "The cities, all the surrounding..." (31) Other some: "younger, 'arbahay' [silly/confused]—in our common copy, it was written here and there as 'krtsr' [younger], according to which we also set it according to each place." (32) Others: "Come and let us drink." (38) Some: "His name Ammon."
CH. 20 (2) Others: "His wife... king of the Gerarites." (6) Some: "Did not give permission to approach." (7) Some: "But if you do not, know that you shall die... and all that is yours." (13) Some: "This righteousness."