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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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所多玛的罪恶

¹两个天使在傍晚到了所多玛，罗得正坐在所多玛的城门口。罗得一看见，就起身迎接他们，脸伏于地下拜， ²说：“看哪，我主，请你们转到仆人家里过夜，洗你们的脚，清早起来再上路。”他们说：“不！我们要在广场上过夜。” ³罗得恳切地请他们，他们就转向他，进到他屋里。罗得为他们预备宴席，烤无酵饼，他们就吃了。 ⁴他们还没有躺下，所多玛城的人，连老带少所有的人，个个都来围住那屋子。 ⁵他们呼叫罗得，对他说：“今天晚上到你这里来的人在哪里？把他们带出来，让我们亲近他们。” ⁶罗得出了门，把身后的门关上，到众人那里， ⁷说：“我的弟兄们，请你们不要做这恶事。 ⁸看哪，我有两个女儿，还没有亲近过男人，让我领她们出来给你们，就照你们看为好的对待她们吧！只是这两个人既然到我舍下，请不要向他们做这事。” ⁹众人说：“站到一边去吧！”又说：“这个人来寄居，还想扮审判官呢！现在我们要害你比害他们更厉害。”众人就往前冲向罗得，要攻破大门。 ¹⁰那两个人伸出手来，把罗得拉进屋子他们那里，就关上门。 ¹¹他们击打门外的人，无论老少，都眼睛迷糊，找门找得很烦躁。

罗得离开所多玛

¹²那两个人对罗得说：“你这里还有什么人吗？无论是女婿，是儿女，这城中所有属你的人，你都要把他们从这地方带出去。 ¹³我们要毁灭这地方，因为控告城内百姓的声音在耶和华面前非常大，耶和华派我们来毁灭这城。” ¹⁴罗得出去，告诉娶了⚓他女儿的女婿们说：“起来，离开这地方，因为耶和华要毁灭这城。”他的女婿们却以为他说的是笑话。
¹⁵天亮了，天使催逼罗得说：“起来！带着你的妻子和你这里的两个女儿出去，免得你因这城的罪孽同被剿灭。” ¹⁶但罗得迟延不走。二人因为耶和华怜悯罗得，就拉着他的手和他妻子的手，以及他两个女儿的手，把他们领出来，安置在城外； ¹⁷领他们出来以后，就说：“逃命吧！不可回头看，也不可在平原站住。要往山上逃跑，免得你被剿灭。” ¹⁸罗得对他们说：“我主啊，不要这样！ ¹⁹看哪，你仆人已经在你眼前蒙恩，你又向我大施慈爱，救我的性命。但是我不能逃到山上去，恐怕这灾祸追上我，我就死了。 ²⁰看哪，这城又近又小，比较容易逃到那里。这不是一座小城吗？求你容我逃到那里，使我的性命可以存活。” ²¹天使对他说：“看哪，这事我也应允你，不倾覆你所说的这城。 ²²你要赶快逃到那城，因为你还没有到那里，我不能做什么。”因此那城名叫琐珥⚓。

所多玛蛾摩拉的毁灭

²³罗得到了琐珥，太阳已经升出地面。
²⁴当时，耶和华把硫磺与火，从天上耶和华那里降与所多玛和蛾摩拉， ²⁵把那些城和全平原，城里所有的居民和土地上生长的，都毁灭了。 ²⁶罗得的妻子在他后边回头一看，就变成了一根盐柱。
²⁷亚伯拉罕清早起来，到了他先前站在耶和华面前的地方， ²⁸面向所多玛和蛾摩拉，以及平原全地观望。他观看，看哪，那地有浓烟上腾，好像烧窑的浓烟。
²⁹当上帝毁灭平原诸城的时候，他记念亚伯拉罕；在倾覆罗得所住之城的时候，就把罗得从倾覆中带出来。

摩押人和亚扪人的起源

³⁰罗得因为怕住在琐珥，就同他两个女儿从琐珥上去，住在山上。他和两个女儿住在一个洞里。 ³¹大女儿对小女儿说：“我们的父亲老了，这地又没有男人可以照世上的礼俗来与我们结合。 ³²来！我们叫父亲喝酒，然后与他同寝。这样，我们可以从我们的父亲存留后裔。” ³³于是，那晚她们叫父亲喝酒，大女儿就进去和她父亲同寝；她几时躺下，几时起来，父亲都不知道。 ³⁴第二天，大女儿对小女儿说：“看哪，我昨夜与父亲同寝。今晚我们再叫他喝酒，你进去与他同寝。这样，我们可以从父亲存留后裔。” ³⁵于是，那晚她们又叫父亲喝酒，小女儿起来与她父亲同寝；她几时躺下，几时起来，父亲都不知道。 ³⁶这样，罗得的两个女儿都从她们的父亲怀了孕。 ³⁷大女儿生了儿子，给他起名叫摩押，就是现今摩押人的始祖。 ³⁸小女儿也生了儿子，给他起名叫便．亚米，就是现今亚扪人的始祖。