Genesis 19:15
New International Version
With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”

New Living Translation
At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. “Hurry,” they said to Lot. “Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. Get out right now, or you will be swept away in the destruction of the city!”

English Standard Version
As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

Berean Standard Bible
At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

King James Bible
And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

New King James Version
When 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.”

New American Standard Bible
When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

NASB 1995
When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

NASB 1977
And when morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up, take your wife and your two daughters, who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

Legacy Standard Bible
Now at the breaking of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

Amplified Bible
When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot [to hurry], saying, “Get up! Take your wife and two daughters who are here [and go], or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

Christian Standard Bible
At daybreak the angels urged Lot on: “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
At daybreak the angels urged Lot on: “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

American Standard Version
And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters that are here, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

Contemporary English Version
Early the next morning the two angels tried to make Lot hurry and leave. They said, "Take your wife and your two daughters and get away from here as fast as you can! If you don't, every one of you will be killed when the LORD destroys the city."

English Revised Version
And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
As soon as it was dawn, the angels urged Lot by saying, "Quick! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you'll be swept away when the city is punished."

Good News Translation
At dawn the angels tried to make Lot hurry. "Quick!" they said. "Take your wife and your two daughters and get out, so that you will not lose your lives when the city is destroyed."

International Standard Version
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."

Majority Standard Bible
At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

NET Bible
At dawn the angels hurried Lot along, saying, "Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!"

New Heart English Bible
When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot along, saying, "Get up. Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, and get out, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city."

Webster's Bible Translation
And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters who are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

World English Bible
When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And when the dawn has ascended, then the messengers press on Lot, saying, “Rise, take your wife, and your two daughters who are found present, lest you are consumed in the iniquity of the city.”

Young's Literal Translation
And when the dawn hath ascended, then the messengers press upon Lot, saying, 'Rise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters who are found present, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.'

Smith's Literal Translation
And when the dawn arose, the messengers will hasten upon Lot, saying, Rise up, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, being found, lest thou shalt be destroyed in the iniquity of the city.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when it was- morning, the angels pressed him, saying: Arise, take thy wife, and the two daughters which thou hast: lest thou also perish in the wickedness of the city.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And when it was morning, the Angels compelled him, saying, “Arise, take your wife, and the two daughters that you have, lest you also should perish amid the wickedness of the city.”

New American Bible
As dawn was breaking, the angels urged Lot on, saying, “Come on! Take your wife with you and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

New Revised Standard Version
When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be consumed in the punishment of the city.”
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And when the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are not given in marriage, lest you be engulfed in the sins of the city.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And when dawn came up, the Messengers urged Lot, and they were saying to him, “Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who have been found, lest you be devoured in the sins of the city.”
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying: 'Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters that are here; lest thou be swept away in the iniquity of the city.'

Brenton Septuagint Translation
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.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Lot Flees to Zoar
14So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking. 15At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.” 16But when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD’s compassion for them.…

Cross References
2 Peter 2:7-8
and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless / (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—

Luke 17:28-29
It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. / But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

Matthew 11:23-24
And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. / But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”

Jude 1:7
In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.

Ezekiel 16:49-50
Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy. / Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them, as you have seen.

Isaiah 3:9
The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.

Luke 17:32
Remember Lot’s wife!

Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.

Revelation 18:4
Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.

Genesis 18:22-33
And the two men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD. / Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked? / What if there are fifty righteous ones in the city? Will You really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones who are there? ...

Deuteronomy 29:23
All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

Jeremiah 50:40
As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.

Amos 4:11
“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”


Treasury of Scripture

And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters, which are here; lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

hastened.

Genesis 19:17,22
And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed…

Numbers 16:24-27
Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram…

Proverbs 6:4,5
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids…

are here.

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Genesis 19
1. Lot entertains two angels.
4. The vicious Sodomites are smitten with blindness.
12. Lot is warned, and in vain warns his sons-in-law.
15. He is directed to flee to the mountains, but obtains leave to go into Zoar.
24. Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed.
26. Lot's wife looks back and becomes a pillar of salt.
29. Lot dwells in a cave.
31. The incestuous origin of Moab and Ammon.














At daybreak
The phrase "at daybreak" signifies a new beginning, a moment of divine intervention as the light of dawn breaks through the darkness. In the Hebrew context, "daybreak" (שַׁחַר, shachar) often symbolizes hope and deliverance. This moment marks God's mercy and urgency in rescuing Lot and his family from impending judgment. The dawn is a metaphor for God's light piercing through human sinfulness, offering a chance for redemption.

the angels
The "angels" (מַלְאָכִים, mal'akhim) are divine messengers sent by God. In the biblical narrative, angels often serve as instruments of God's will, bringing messages of warning or guidance. Their presence underscores the seriousness of the situation and the direct involvement of God in human affairs. The angels' role here is to execute God's plan of salvation for Lot, highlighting the theme of divine protection and intervention.

hurried Lot
The urgency in "hurried Lot" reflects the imminent danger and the necessity for immediate action. The Hebrew root for "hurried" (אָץ, ats) conveys a sense of pressing urgency. This urgency is a call to obedience and responsiveness to God's warnings. Lot's hesitation contrasts with the angels' urgency, reminding believers of the importance of heeding God's call without delay.

saying, 'Up!
The command "Up!" is a call to action, a directive to rise and move. In the Hebrew context, this imperative (קוּם, qum) is often used to initiate a significant change or transition. It is a call to leave behind the old and embrace the new path God has set. This command is both physical and spiritual, urging Lot to rise from complacency and align with God's will.

Take your wife and your two daughters who are here
This phrase emphasizes the importance of family and the collective nature of salvation. The instruction to "take" (לָקַח, laqach) implies a responsibility to lead and protect one's family. The mention of "your wife and your two daughters" highlights the personal and relational aspect of God's deliverance. It serves as a reminder of the covenantal relationships within families and the role of the head of the household in guiding them towards safety and righteousness.

or you will be swept away
The warning "or you will be swept away" conveys the severity of the impending judgment. The Hebrew root for "swept away" (סָפָה, saphah) suggests complete destruction or annihilation. This phrase serves as a stark reminder of the consequences of sin and the reality of divine judgment. It underscores the necessity of heeding God's warnings to avoid the fate of the wicked.

in the punishment of the city
The "punishment of the city" refers to the divine retribution that is about to befall Sodom. The term "punishment" (עָוֹן, avon) in Hebrew often denotes iniquity or guilt, and its consequences. This phrase highlights the justice of God in dealing with sin and the moral decay of Sodom. It serves as a cautionary tale of the consequences of turning away from God's righteousness and the inevitable judgment that follows.

(15) When the morning arose.--Lot had thus the night for making his preparations, but part of this he spent in his visits to his sons-in-law.

Consumed.--Heb., swept away; and so in Genesis 19:17. See Genesis 18:23-24, where it is rendered "destroy."

Verses 15, 16. - And when the morning arose, - literally, as soon as the dawn (from שָׁחַר, to break forth as the light) went up, i.e. on the first appearance of the morning twilight - then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; - literally, which are found; not implying the existence of other daughters (Knobel), but contrasting with the sons in law (Keil, Kalisch) lest thou be consumed in the iniquity (or punishment, as in Isaiah 5:18) of the city. And while he lingered, - Lot's irresolution would have been his ruin but for his attendant. His heart manifestly clung to the earthly possessions he was leaving. The angels made no mention of his attempting to save a portion of his great wealth - the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful to him: - literally, in the mercy, or gentleness, of Jehovah to him; the primary idea of the verb from which the noun is derived being that of softness (cf. Isaiah 63:9) - and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
At
וּכְמוֹ֙ (ū·ḵə·mōw)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 3644: Like, as, when

daybreak
הַשַּׁ֣חַר (haš·ša·ḥar)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7837: Dawn

the angels
הַמַּלְאָכִ֖ים (ham·mal·’ā·ḵîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4397: A messenger, of God, an angel

hurried
וַיָּאִ֥יצוּ (way·yā·’î·ṣū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 213: To press, to be close, hurry, withdraw

Lot along,
בְּל֣וֹט (bə·lō·wṭ)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3876: Lot -- Abraham's nephew

saying,
לֵאמֹ֑ר (lê·mōr)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“Get up!
קוּם֩ (qūm)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

Take
קַ֨ח (qaḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

your wife
אִשְׁתְּךָ֜ (’iš·tə·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

and your two
שְׁתֵּ֤י (šə·tê)
Number - fdc
Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

daughters
בְנֹתֶ֙יךָ֙ (ḇə·nō·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1323: A daughter

who are here,
הַנִּמְצָאֹ֔ת (han·nim·ṣā·’ōṯ)
Article | Verb - Nifal - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

or
פֶּן־ (pen-)
Conjunction
Strong's 6435: Removal, lest

you will be swept away
תִּסָּפֶ֖ה (tis·sā·p̄eh)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5595: To sweep or snatch away, catch up

in the punishment
בַּעֲוֺ֥ן (ba·‘ă·wōn)
Preposition-b | Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity

of the city.”
הָעִֽיר׃ (hā·‘îr)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5892: Excitement


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