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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"><title>Genesis 19 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</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="../">Brenton</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/genesis/19-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Lot Welcomes the Angels<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the two angels came to Sodom at evening. And Lot sat by the gate of Sodom, and Lot having seen them, rose up to meet them, and he worshipped with his face to the ground, and said, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Lo! <i>my</i> lords, turn aside to the house of your servant, and rest from your journey, and wash your feet, and having risen early in the morning ye shall depart on your journey. And they said, Nay, but we will lodge in the street. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And he constrained them, and they turned aside to him, and they entered into his house, and he made a feast for them, and baked unleavened cakes for them, and they did eat. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But before they went to sleep, the men of the city, the Sodomites, compassed the house, both young and old, all the people together. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And they called out Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that went in to thee this night? bring them out to us that we may be with them. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Lot went out to them to the porch, and he shut the door after him, <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and said to them, By no means, brethren, do not act villanously. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But I have two daughters, who have not known a man. I will bring them out to you, and do ye use them as it may please you, only do not injury to these men, to avoid which they came under the shelter of my roof. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And they said to him, Stand back there, thou camest in to sojourn, was it also to judge? Now then we would harm thee more than them. And they pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and they drew nigh to break the door. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the men stretched forth their hands and drew Lot in to them into the house, and shut the door of the house. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, and they were wearied with seeking the door.<p> <A name="13"></a><p class="hdg">Lot Flees to Zoar<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And the men said to Lot, Hast thou here sons-in-law, or sons or daughters, or if thou hast any other friend in the city, bring them out of this place. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For we are going to destroy this place; for their cry has been raised up before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law who had married his daughters, and said, Rise up, and depart out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city; but he seemed to be speaking absurdly before his sons-in-law.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But when it was morning, the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise and take thy wife, and thy two daughters whom thou hast, and go forth; lest thou also be destroyed with the iniquities of the city. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And they were troubled, and the angels laid hold on his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, in that the Lord spared him. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And it came to pass when they brought them out, that they said, Save thine own life by all means; look not round to that which is behind, nor stay in all the country round about, escape to the mountain, lest perhaps thou be overtaken together with them. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Lot said to them, I pray, Lord, <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>since thy servant has found mercy before thee, and thou hast magnified thy righteousness, in what thou doest towards me that my soul may live, - but I shall not be able to escape to the mountain, lest perhaps the calamity overtake me and I die. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Behold this city is near for me to escape thither, which is a small one, and there shall I be preserved, is it not little? and my soul shall live because of thee. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And he said to him, Behold, I have had respect to thee also about this thing, that I should not overthrow the city about which thou hast spoken. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Hasten therefore to escape thither, for I shall not be able to do anything until thou art come thither; therefore he called the name of that city, Segor.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The sun was risen upon the earth, when Lot entered into Segor.<p> <A name="25"></a><p class="hdg">The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And he overthrew these cities, and all the country round about, and all that dwelt in the cities, and the plants springing out of the ground.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And his wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Abraam rose up early to go to the place, where he had stood before the Lord. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And he looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha, and towards the surrounding country, and saw, and behold a flame went up from the earth, as the smoke of a furnace.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And it came to pass that when God destroyed all the cities of the region round about, God remembered Abraam, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when the Lord overthrew those cities in which Lot dwelt.<p> <A name="31"></a><p class="hdg">Lot and His Daughters<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And Lot went up out of Segor, and dwelt in the mountain, he and his two daughters with him, for he feared to dwell in Segor; and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And the elder said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no one on the earth who shall come in to us, as it is fit in all the earth. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Come and let us make our father drink wine, and let us sleep with him, and let us raise up seed from our father. <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>So they made their father drink wine in that night, and the elder went in and lay with her father that night, and he knew not when he slept and when he rose up. <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And it came to pass on the morrow, that the elder said to the younger, Behold, I slept yesternight with our father, let us make him drink wine in this night also, and do thou go in and sleep with him, and let us raise up seed of our father. <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>So they made their father drink wine in that night also, and the younger went in and slept with her father, and he knew not when he slept, nor when he arose. <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And the two daughters of Lot conceived by their father. <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And the elder bore a son and called his name Moab, saying, <i>He is</i> of my father. This is the father of the Moabites to this present day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/19-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And the younger also bore a son, and called his name Amman, saying, The son of my family. This is the father of the Ammanites to this present day.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>