1 The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, 2 and he said, "See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way."
They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."
3 He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter. 5 They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them."
6 Lot went out to them through the door, and shut the door after himself. 7 He said, "Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly. 8 See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."
9 They said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!" They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door. 10 But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door. 11 They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
12 The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place: 13 for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."
14 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!"
But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking. 15 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." 16 But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city. 17 It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!"
18 Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, my lord. 19 See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die. 20 See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live."
21 He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. 22 Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. 24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky. 25 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground. 26 But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh. 28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
29 When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
30 Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters. 31 The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth. 32 Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line." 33 They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose. 34 It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line." 35 They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up. 36 Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father. 37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day. 38 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.
1 黄昏的时候， 那两位天使到了所多玛， 当时罗得正坐在所多玛的城门口。罗得一看见他们， 就起来迎接他们， 俯伏在地，
2 说： "我主啊， 请你们到仆人的家里住一夜， 洗洗你们的脚， 清早起来再赶路。"他们回答： "不， 我们要在街上过夜。"
3 但由于罗得再三的请求， 他们才肯跟他回去， 进了他的家。罗得为他们预备了筵席， 烤了无酵饼， 他们就吃了。
4 他们还没有躺下睡觉， 那城里的人， 就是所多玛的男人， 无论是年轻的或是年老的， 都从各处来围住罗得的房子。
5 他们呼唤罗得， 对他说： "今晚到你这里来的人在哪里？把他们带出来， 我们要与他们同房。"
6 罗得出来， 随手把门关上， 到门口众人那里，
7 说： "我的弟兄们， 请不要作恶。
8 看哪， 我有两个女儿， 是还没有和男人同房的， 让我把她们带出来， 你们高兴怎样待她们， 就怎样行吧！ 只是这两个人， 因为他们是到舍下来的， 你们不可向他们作什么。"
9 众人却说： "滚开！ "又说： "一个来这里寄居的人， 竟作起审判官来； 现在我们要害你， 比害他们还要厉害。"众人就向罗得极力拥挤， 他们冲前要打破房门。
10 那两个人却伸出手来， 把罗得拉进屋里去， 并把门关上。
11 然后击打那些门外的人， 使他们无论老少， 都眼目昏眩， 以致找不到门口。
12 那二人对罗得说： "你这里还有什么人没有？无论是女婿、儿女， 或是城中所有属你的人， 都要把他们从这地方带走。
13 我们快要毁灭这地方了， 因为控告他们的声音在耶和华面前实在很大， 所以耶和华派我们来毁灭这地方。"
14 于是罗得出去， 告诉娶了他女儿的女婿说： "你们起来离开这地方； 因为耶和华就要毁灭这城。"但是他的女婿以为他在开玩笑。
15 天快亮的时候， 两位天使催促罗得说： "起来， 带你的妻子， 和你这里的两个女儿出去， 免得你因这城的罪孽被除灭。"
16 罗得还在犹豫不决的时候， 二人因为耶和华宽容罗得， 就拉着罗得的手， 和他妻子的手， 以及他两个女儿的手， 把他们带出来， 安置在城外。
17 二人把他们带出来以后， 其中一位说： "逃命吧， 不要回头看， 也不可留在这片平原上， 要逃到山上去， 免得你被除灭。"
18 罗得对他们说： "我主啊！ 请不要这样。
19 看哪， 你仆人既然在你眼前蒙恩， 你又向我大施慈爱， 救活我的性命； 可是我还逃不到山上， 恐怕这灾祸就追上了我， 我就死了。
20 看哪， 这座城很近， 可以逃到那里， 那只是一座小城， 请让我逃到那里去。那不是一座小城吗？这样我就可以活命了。"
21 有一位天使对他说： "这事我也答应你， 你所说的这城， 我必不倾覆。
22 你赶快逃到那里去， 因为你还没有到达那里， 我就不能作什么。"因此那城名叫琐珥。
23 罗得到达琐珥的时候， 太阳已经从地面升上来了。
24 当时， 耶和华就使硫磺与火， 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， 以及城中所有的居民， 连地上生长的， 都毁灭了。
26 罗得的妻子向后一望， 就变成了盐柱。
27 亚伯拉罕清早起来， 到他从前站在耶和华面前的地方，
28 向所多玛和蛾摩拉， 以及平原全地观望。不料， 看见那地有烟上升， 好像烧窑的烟一样。
29 神毁灭那平原上的众城， 倾覆罗得所住过的众城的时候， 神记念亚伯拉罕， 把罗得从倾覆中救出来。
30 罗得因为怕住在琐珥， 就与他的两个女儿， 一同离开琐珥上了山， 住在那里； 他和两个女儿住在一个洞里。
31 大女儿对小女儿说： "我们的爸爸已经老了， 这地又没有男人可以按着世上的常规进来与我们亲近。
32 来吧， 我们可以叫父亲喝酒， 然后与他同睡， 这样我们可以借着父亲保全后裔。"
33 当夜， 她们叫父亲喝酒， 大女儿就进去与父亲同睡， 她什么时候躺下， 什么时候起来， 她父亲都不知道。
34 第二天， 大女儿对小女儿说： "昨夜我与父亲同睡了， 今夜我们再叫父亲喝酒， 你可以进去与他同睡， 这样我们可以借着父亲保全后裔。"
35 当夜， 她们又叫父亲喝酒， 小女儿就起来， 与父亲同睡； 她什么时候躺下， 什么时候起来， 她父亲都不知道。
36 这样， 罗得的两个女儿， 都从她们的父亲怀了孕。
37 大女儿生了一个儿子， 给他起名叫摩押， 就是现在摩押人的始祖。
38 小女儿也生了一个儿子， 给他起名叫便．亚米， 就是现在亚扪人的始祖。