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Sodom’s Depravity

¹Now ⚓the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and ⚓Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground. ²And he said, “Here now, my lords, please ⚓turn in to your servant’s house and spend the night, and ⚓wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.”
And they said, ⚓“No, but we will spend the night in the open square.”
³But he insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and entered his house. ⚓Then he made them a feast, and baked ⚓unleavened bread, and they ate.
⁴Now before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house. ⁵⚓And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? ⚓Bring them out to us that we ⚓may know them carnally.”
⁶So ⚓Lot went out to them through the doorway, shut the door behind him, ⁷and said, “Please, my brethren, do not do so wickedly! ⁸⚓See now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish; only do nothing to these men, ⚓since this is the reason they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
⁹And they said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one ⚓came in to stay here,⚓and he keeps acting as a judge; now we will deal worse with you than with them.” So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door. ¹⁰But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door. ¹¹And they ⚓struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they became weary trying to find the door.

Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed

¹²Then the men said to Lot, “Have you anyone else here? Son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city—⚓take them out of this place! ¹³For we will destroy this place, because the ⚓outcry against them has grown great before the face of the Lord, and ⚓the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”
¹⁴So 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 the Lord will destroy this city!” ⚓But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking.
¹⁵When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, ⚓“Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.” ¹⁶And while he lingered, the men ⚓took hold of his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the ⚓Lord being merciful to him, ⚓and they brought him out and set him outside the city. ¹⁷So it came to pass, 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 destroyed.”
¹⁸Then Lot said to them, “Please, ⚓no, my lords! ¹⁹Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil overtake me and I die. ²⁰See now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one; please let me escape there (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.”
²¹And he said to him, “See, ⚓I have favored you concerning this thing also, in that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken. ²²Hurry, escape there. For ⚓I cannot do anything until you arrive there.”
Therefore ⚓the name of the city was called Zoar.
²³The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar. ²⁴Then the Lord rained ⚓brimstone and ⚓fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens. ²⁵So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and ⚓what grew on the ground.
²⁶But his wife looked back behind him, and she became ⚓a pillar of salt.
²⁷And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where ⚓he had stood before the Lord. ²⁸Then he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain; and he saw, and behold, ⚓the smoke of the land which went up like the smoke of a furnace. 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 which Lot had dwelt.

The Descendants of Lot

³⁰Then Lot went up out of Zoar and ⚓dwelt in the mountains, and his two daughters were with him; for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar. And he and his two daughters dwelt in a cave. ³¹Now the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth ⚓to come in to us as is the custom of all the earth. ³²Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we ⚓may preserve the lineage of our father.” ³³So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
³⁴It happened on the next day that the firstborn said to the younger, “Indeed I lay with my father last night; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve the lineage of our father.” ³⁵Then they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
³⁶Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father. ³⁷The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; ⚓he is the father of the Moabites to this day. ³⁸And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi; ⚓he is the father of the people of Ammon to this day.

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Yiang Sursĩ Talốh Vil Sadôm Cớp Vil Camô-rơ

¹Tabữ ki, toâq bar náq ranễng Yiang Sursĩ toâq pỡ vil Sadôm, ma paloŏng cheq sadâu chơ. Bo ki Lot ỡt tacu cheq ngoah toong viang vil. Án hữm bar náq ranễng ki toâq, chơ án yuor tayứng cớp pỡq ramóh alới. Án ap tỗ chu cutễq cucốh cớp mơi alới neq: ²“Sễq bar náq achuaih toâq pỡ dống cứq, ariau ayững cớp bếq nnâi voai sadâu nâi; toâq poang tarưp parnỡ, ki anhia pỡq tễ cláih.”
Ranễng ki ta‑ỡi neq: “Tỡ bữn mŏ! Bữ nâi hếq ỡt yáng tiah toâp, bân ntốq noau dốq tampống nâi.”
³Ma Lot kiauq níc bar náq ranễng ki. Ngkíq alới pỡq cớp Lot mut tâng dống án. Lot aloŏh sana cớp bễng tỡ bữn pluoih yỗn bar náq ki cha; chơ bar náq ranễng ki cha. ⁴Bo bar náq alới ki noâng tamỡ, bữn clứng cũai samiang tễ vil Sadôm, dếh cũai thâu, dếh cũai póng, nheq tữh alới toâq lavíng chũop nheq dống Lot. ⁵Cớp alới arô Lot neq: “Lot ơi! Nléq chơ samiang tamoi ca toâq pỡ dống mới sadâu nâi? Mới dững alới loŏh ramóh hếq. Hếq yoc ễ langơp cớp yoc ễ bữn alới.”
⁶Ngkíq Lot loŏh tễ dống, cớp catáih chíq ngoah toong. ⁷Án atỡng alới neq: “Cứq sễq sễm ai chỗi táq ranáq sâuq ngkíq. ⁸Nâi! Cứq bữn bar lám con mansễm noâng plot, yũah bữn cayac. Cứq dững aloŏh alới yỗn anhia. Ntrớu anhia yoc ễ táq chóq alới, ki anhia tíng táq. Ma sễq anhia chỗi táq ntrớu chóq bar náq samiang nâi, yuaq alới la cũai tamoi ca toâq pỡ dống cứq.”
⁹Ma clứng cũai ki ta‑ỡi loah Lot neq: “Mới priang yơng! Mới la cũai sarlỗi, ma noâng mới ễ sữq hếq. Sanua hếq táq mới ntâng hỡn tễ alới bar náq ki ễn.”
Cũai clứng ki tuam Lot hâp lứq, palŏ́ng yoc talốh ngoah toong. ¹⁰Ma alới bar náq samiang tâng clống dống, satoâp atĩ sadŏ́h Lot amut loah chu dống. Chơ alới catáih chíq ngoah toong. ¹¹Ma alới bar náq ki táq yỗn cũai samiang clứng ca ỡt yáng tiah ngoah toong cỡt sũt nheq. Ngkíq nheq tữh cũai clứng ki, dếh cũai póng, dếh cũai thâu, alới pê chuaq ngoah toong, ma tỡ tamóh.
¹²Chơ alới bar náq ki atỡng Lot neq: “Ỡt ntốq nâi mới bữn partiam, tỡ la con samiang, tỡ la con mansễm tỡ? Cóq mới dững aloŏh nheq máh alới tễ ntốq nâi. ¹³Yuaq hếq ntôm ễ talốh nheq vil nâi; yuaq Yiang Sursĩ khoiq sâng chơ máh cũai tâng ntốq nâi la loâi lứq. Cớp Yiang Sursĩ ớn hếq toâq pỡ nâi, dŏq talốh yỗn pứt nheq vil nâi.”
¹⁴Chơ Lot pỡq ramóh bar náq samiang ca cỡt sampuoq bar náq con mansễm án, cớp Lot atỡng bar náq samiang ki neq: “Anhia loŏh toâp tễ ntốq nâi, yuaq Yiang Sursĩ cheq ễ talốh nheq vil nâi.”
Ma cũai samiang ki chanchớm Lot atỡng ra‑ac sâng.
¹⁵Toâq poang tarưp, ranễng Yiang Sursĩ cartuoih Lot: “Mới yuor chái! Dững lacuoi cớp bar lám con mansễm mới loŏh toâp! Ngcŏh anhia cuchĩt parnơi cớp cũai tâng vil nâi!”
¹⁶Ma Lot tũt. Ngkíq bar náq ranễng ki tếc Lot, lacuoi Lot, cớp bar náq con mansễm Lot yỗn loŏh vớt tễ vil ki, yuaq Yiang Sursĩ ayooq táq dũ náq cũai tâng dống sũ Lot. ¹⁷Tữ ranễng Yiang Sursĩ dững alới loŏh vớt chơ tễ vil, ngkíq manoaq ranễng pai neq: “Anhia lúh yỗn vớt, chỗi luliaq chu clĩ. Chỗi tangứt ntốq aléq tâng cutễq tapín la‑a nâi. Lúh chỗn chu cóh toâp, khân anhia ễq yỗn vớt tễ ŏ́c cuchĩt.”
¹⁸Ma Lot ta‑ỡi alới neq: “Tỡ têq, achuaih ơi! ¹⁹Cứq sa‑ỡn sa‑ữi lứq anhia ayooq cứq, cớp rachuai yỗn cứq bữn tamoong. Sanua cứq tỡ rơi lúh chỗn noâng chu cóh ki. Cŏh lơ ŏ́c cuchĩt satỡm cứq, cớp cứq cuchĩt toâp. ²⁰Achuaih hữm vil cớt cớt tíh tỡ? Vil ki cheq, cớp têq pỡq toâq. Sễq anhia yỗn cứq lúh chu vil cớt ki, chơ cứq bữn plot ien.”
²¹Ranễng Yiang Sursĩ ta‑ỡi Lot neq: “Ơq! Cứq tỡ bữn talốh vil cớt ki, sanŏ́q mới khoiq sễq. ²²Anhia pỡq chái! Khân anhia tỡ yũah toâq pỡ ntốq ki, cứq tỡ têq táq ranáq ntrớu.” (Noau dŏq vil ki la Sô-a; ‘sô-a’ parlong loah la ‘cớt’.)

Sadôm Cớp Camô-rơ Cỡt Ralốh

²³Toâq mandang mbỡiq loŏh, Lot mut tâng vil Sô-a. ²⁴Chơ Yiang Sursĩ apŏ́ng mữ cớp pla ũih tễ paloŏng ariang mia satooh tâng vil Sadôm cớp vil Camô-rơ. ²⁵Ngkíq bar vil ki cat cốiq nheq, dếh ntốq cutễq tapín la‑a cheq ki hỡ, dếh cũai ỡt tâng ki, dếh máh aluang aloai crái samữ hỡ. ²⁶Ma lacuoi Lot pỡq ntun Lot; án luliaq loah chu clĩ. Bo ki toâp lacuoi Lot cuchĩt cớp cỡt chíq ngooc boi.
²⁷Poang tarưp, A-praham tamỡ tễ cláih. Án pỡq pỡ ntốq án táq ntỡng cớp Yiang Sursĩ tễ nhũang. ²⁸Án tapoang chu angia vil Sadôm cớp vil Camô-rơ, cớp máh cutễq tapín la‑a ki. Án hữm phĩac cusốh achỗn tễ cutễq ariang loŏh tễ muoi lo ũih toâr lứq.
²⁹Ma toâq Yiang Sursĩ talốh nheq máh vil tâng ntốq tapín la‑a ki, án sanhữ A-praham; ngkíq án dững aloŏh Lot tễ ntốq cuchĩt ki. Yiang Sursĩ talốh pữoi nheq vil Lot ỡt tễ nhũang.

Bar Náq Con Mansễm Lot Sễt Bar Lám Con Samiang

³⁰Lot sâng ngcŏh ỡt tâng vil Sô-a. Ngkíq án cớp bar lám con mansễm án loŏh tễ vil Sô-a, chơ chỗn tâng cóh cớp ỡt tâng muoi cưp tamáu ³¹Án ca ỡi atỡng a‑ễm án neq: “Mpoaq hái khoiq thâu chơ, cớp tỡ bữn cũai aléq noâng tâng cutễq nâi têq ĩt hái táq lacuoi puai rit hái. ³²Ngkíq hái táq yỗn mpoaq cỡt bũl blŏ́ng. Chơ hái bếq cớp án dŏq yỗn hái bữn loah tŏ́ng toiq tễ mpoaq hái ễn.”
³³Toâq sadâu, alới saroac blŏ́ng yỗn mpoaq alới cỡt bũl. Moâm ki con mansễm clúng mut bếq cớp mpoaq án. Ma mpoaq án tỡ bữn dáng bo léq con án mut bếq cớp án, cớp án tỡ dáng bo léq con án yuor loah.
³⁴Toâq tangái parnỡ, án ca ỡi atỡng a‑ễm neq: “Bữ hái cứq bếq parnơi cớp mpoaq hái. Chơ sadâu kếq hái táq yỗn mpoaq bũl blŏ́ng sĩa. Chơ mới ễn pỡq bếq parnơi cớp mpoaq. Ngkíq hái bữn loah tŏ́ng toiq tễ mpoaq hái.”
³⁵Ngkíq sadâu ki bar náq sễm ỡi táq yỗn mpoaq alới bũl blŏ́ng sĩa. Chơ con ralŏ́h ễn pỡq bếq cớp mpoaq alới. Ma mpoaq alới tỡ bữn dáng bo léq con án bếq cớp án. Cớp án tỡ bữn dáng bo léq con án yuor. ³⁶Ngkíq bar lám con mansễm Lot ỡt mumiaq cỗ tễ mpoaq alới. ³⁷Con mansễm clúng canỡt muoi lám con samiang. Án amứh con samiang ki Mô-ap. Mô-ap cỡt achúc achiac nheq tữh cũai Mô-ap toau toâq tangái nâi. ³⁸Án ca a‑ễm ralŏ́h la canỡt muoi lám con samiang tê. Án amứh con samiang ki Ben-ami. Ben-ami cỡt achúc achiac nheq tữh cũai Amôn toau toâq tangái nâi.