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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Genesis 19 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/19.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/19-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > Genesis 19</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/18.htm" title="Genesis 18">◄</a> Genesis 19 <a href="../genesis/20.htm" title="Genesis 20">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/genesis/19.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Sodom’s Depravity</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The two angels entered Sodom at sunset while Lot was sitting in the gate area of the city.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:1 Lit. of Sodom">a</a></span> When Lot saw them,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:1 The Heb. lacks them">b</a></span> he got up, greeted them, bowed low with his face to the ground, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and said, “Look, my lords! Please come inside your servant’s house, wash your feet, and spend the night. Then you can get up early and be on your way.”</p> <p class="reg">But they responded, “No, we would rather spend the night in the town square.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But Lot<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:3 Lit. he">c</a></span> kept urging them strongly, so they turned aside and entered his house. He prepared a festival and baked unleavened flat bread for them, and they ate.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Before they could lie down, all the men of Sodom and its outskirts, both young and old, surrounded the house. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They called out to Lot and asked, “Where are the men who came to visit<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:5 The Heb. lacks visit">d</a></span> you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:5 Lit. can know">e</a></span> them!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Lot went outside to them, shut the door behind him, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and said, “I urge you, my brothers, don’t do such a wicked thing. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Look here, I have two daughters who are virgins.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:8 Lit. have not known a man">f</a></span> Let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them whatever you wish,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:8 Lit. seems good in your eyes">g</a></span> only don’t do anything to these men, because they’re here under my protection.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:8 Lit. under the shadow of my roof">h</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But they replied, “Get out of the way! This man came here as a foreigner, and now he’s acting like a judge! So we’re going to deal more harshly with you than with them.” Then they pushed hard against the man (that is, against Lot), intending to break down the door.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But the angels<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:10 Lit. men">i</a></span> inside reached out, dragged Lot back into the house with them, shut the door, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and blinded the men who were at the entrance of the house, from the least important to the greatest, so they were unable to find the doorway.</p> <p class="heading">Lot Negotiates with the Angels</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Do you have anyone else here in the city?” the angels<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:12 Lit. men">j</a></span> asked Lot. “A son-in-law? Sons? Daughters? Get them out of this place, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>because we’re going to destroy it. The LORD knows how their behavior stinks,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:13 Lit. how great is their outcry">k</a></span> so he<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:13 Lit. so the LORD">l</a></span> sent us here to destroy it!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Lot then went out and told his sons-in-law (they had married his daughters), “Get out of here! The LORD is going to destroy this city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>As dawn was breaking, the angels pressured Lot. “Get going!” they told him. “Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be engulfed by the devastation that’s coming to this city.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But Lot kept lingering in the city,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:16 The Heb. lacks in the city">m</a></span> so the men<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:16 Or angels">n</a></span> grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters (because of the LORD’s compassion for him!), brought them out of the city, and left them outside. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back or stop anywhere on the plain. Escape to the hills, or you’ll be swept away!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“No! Please, my lords!” Lot pleaded with them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me your gracious love in how you have dealt with me by keeping me alive. I cannot escape to the hills, because I’m afraid the disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Look, there is a town nearby where I can flee, and it’s a small one. Let me escape there! It’s a small one, isn’t it? That way I’ll stay alive!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“All right,” the angel replied to Lot,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:21 Lit. him">o</a></span> “I’ll agree with your request!<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:21 Lit. I’ll lift up your face in this matter as well!">p</a></span> I won’t overthrow the town that you mentioned. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Hurry up and flee there, because I cannot do anything until you get to that town.” Therefore the name of the town was called Zoar.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:22 The Heb. name Zoar means small">q</a></span> </p> <p class="heading">Lot’s Wife Becomes a Pillar of Salt</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The sun had risen over the land about the time Lot reached Zoar. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then the LORD rained sulfur and fire out of the sky from the LORD on Sodom and Gomorrah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>overthrowing those cities, all of the plain, and everyone who lived in the cities. He also destroyed the plants that grew out of the ground. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But Lot’s<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:26 Lit. his">r</a></span> wife looked back as she lingered behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD earlier. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>He looked off toward Sodom, Gomorrah, and the entire<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:28 Lit. entire land of the">s</a></span> plain, and he saw smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And so it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham and brought Lot out from the midst of the destruction when he overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.</p> <p class="heading">The Origin of Moab and Ammon</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Later on, Lot and his two daughters abandoned Zoar and settled in the hills because Lot was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived there in a cave, along with his two daughters. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>One day the firstborn told the younger one, “Our father is old, and there’s no man in the land to have sex with us,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:31 Lit. to come in to us">t</a></span> as everybody else throughout all the earth does. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Come on! Let’s make our father drink wine, and then we’ll have sex with him so we can preserve our father’s lineage.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>So they had their father drink wine that night, and the older one had sexual relations with her father, but he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>The next day the firstborn told the younger one, “Look! I had sex with my father last night. Let’s make him drink wine tonight again as well. Then you have sex with him, too. That way we’ll preserve our father’s lineage.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>So they made their father drink wine that night as well, so he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>That’s how both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>The firstborn gave birth to a son and named him Moab,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:37 The Heb. name Moab means from my father">u</a></span> and he is the ancestor of the Moabites to this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/19-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>The younger daughter also gave birth to a son and named him Ben-ammi,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="19:38 The Heb. name Ben-ammi means son of my people">v</a></span> and he is the ancestor of the Ammonites to this day.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 19:1 Lit. <i>of Sodom</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 19:1 The Heb. lacks <i>them</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 19:3 Lit. <i>he</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 19:5 The Heb. lacks <i>visit</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 19:5 Lit. <i>can know</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 19:8 Lit. <i>have not known a man</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 19:8 Lit. <i>seems good in your eyes</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 19:8 Lit. <i>under the shadow of my roof</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 19:10 Lit. <i>men</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 19:12 Lit. <i>men</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 19:13 Lit. <i>how great is their outcry</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 19:13 Lit. <i>so the LORD</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 19:16 The Heb. lacks <i>in the city</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 19:16 Or <i>angels</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 19:21 Lit. <i>him</i><br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 19:21 Lit. <i>I’ll lift up your face in this matter as well!</i><br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 19:22 The Heb. name <i>Zoar </i>means <i>small</i><br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 19:26 Lit. <i>his</i><br /><span class="fnb">s</span> 19:28 Lit. <i>entire land of the</i><br /><span class="fnb">t</span> 19:31 Lit. <i>to come in to us</i><br /><span class="fnb">u</span> 19:37 The Heb. name <i>Moab </i>means <i>from my father</i><br /><span class="fnb">v</span> 19:38 The Heb. name <i>Ben-ammi</i> means <i>son of my people</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/18.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 18"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 18" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/20.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 20"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 20" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/genesis/19-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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