1And there came two angels to Sodom at evening; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and when Lot saw them, he stood up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; 2And he said, “My lords, come, I pray you, into my house, and spend the night, and wash your feet, and you can rise early, and continue on your way.” And they said, “No thanks; we will stay in the street all night.” 3And Lot pressed upon them greatly; so that they turned, and entered his house; and he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 4But before they lay down for the night, the men of the city - the men of Sodom - surrounded the house, both old and young, people from every quarter. 5And they called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came into your house tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” 6And Lot went outside to speak to them, and shut the door behind him, 7And said, “I pray you, brothers, do not do this wicked thing. 8Look, I have two daughters who have never known man; let me bring them out to you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes: but to these men do nothing; for that is why they have come under the protection of my roof.” 9And they shouted, “Stand back.” And they said, “This one fellow (Lot) came here as a foreigner, and now he wants be our judge: now will we treat you worse than them.” And they lunged against Lot, and came close to breaking the door. 10But the men inside reached their out hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut the door. 11And then they struck the men outside of the house with blindness, both small and great; so that they wearied themselves at groping to find the door.

12And the two men asked Lot, “If you have anyone else here - your sons, daughters, sons-in-law, or whoever you have in the city; take them out of this place: 13For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against those of this place has reached the LORD; and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.” 14And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get yourselves up and out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city.” But Lot seemed to his sons-in-law like someone who was kidding. 15And with the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here; before you get caught in the destruction of the city because of its wicked ways.” 16And when he lingered, the men grabbed the hands of Lot, his wife, and his two daughters - the LORD being merciful to him - and they quicky ushered them outside of the city. 17And when they had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your life; do not look back! And do not stay in any part of the plain. Escape to the mountain, so you are not consumed.” 18And Lot said to him, “Oh, not so, my lord! 19Since I have found grace with you, and you have extended to me your mercy, that you have shown to me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountain, and this disaster will overtake me, and I will die: 20Look, this town is nearby to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh, let me escape there, (is it not a little one?) and I shall live.” 21And one of them said to him, “Very well, I have granted this request, also, that I will not overthrow this town, for which you have spoken. 22Hurry, get there quickly; for I cannot do anything till you have reached there.” That is why that town as called Zoar (meaning “small”).

23The sun had well risen when Lot entered Zoar. 24Then the LORD rained brimstone (burning sulfur) and fire from out of heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah; 25He completely destroyed those cities, and the entire plain, killing all the inhabitants of those cities, and everything that grew upon the ground. 26But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

27And Abraham rose early in the morning and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD: 28And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and the surrounding land of the plain; and the smoke of the country rose like smoke from a furnace. 29And when God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and removed Lot from the center of destruction, when He destroyed the cities in which Lot dwelt.

30And Lot and his two daughters went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain; for he was afraid to stay in Zoar: and he and his two daughters lived in a cave. 31And the elder of his two daughters said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man around here to give us children: 32Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will sleep with him, that we may preserve the family line of our father.” 33And so they made their father drink wine that night: and the older one went in, and lay with her father; and he did not perceive when she lay down, nor when she arose. 34And the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night: let us also make him drink wine again tonight; and you go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve the family line of our father.” 35And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger lay with him; and he again did not perceive when she lay down, nor when she arose. 36Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. 37And the firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab: who became the father of the Moabites until this day. 38And the younger bore a son, and named him Ben-ammi, who became the father of the Ammonites until this day.