1 Now the two angels came to Sodom at sunset. And Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them, and stood up to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 2 And he said, “Look, please, my masters, please come into your servant’s house and spend the night, and wash your feet, and you can get up early and go on your way.”
And they said, “No, but we will spend the night in the square.”
3 But he urged them greatly, and they came in with him and entered into his house. And he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 4 Now before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both from young man to old, all the people from the farthest parts. 5 And they called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.”
6 And Lot went out to them through the entrance, shut the door behind him, 7 and he said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly. 8 Look, please, I have two daughters who have never known a man. 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 this is why they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
9 And they said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one came in to live as a foreigner, and he acts as a judge and judges! Now will we treat you more wickedly than them!” And they pressed hard on the man, against Lot, and came near to break down the door. 10 But the men reached out their hands, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut the door. 11 And they struck the men who were at the entrance of the house with blindness, both small and great, so they got tired trying to find the entrance.
12 Now the men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here? Son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place! 13 Because we will bring ruin this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before Yehovah, and Yehovah has sent us to bring ruin on it.”
14 And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yehovah will bring ruin on the city!”
But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking. 15 Now when the morning came, the angels pressed Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, so you won’t be swept away in the punishment of the city.” 16 And he delayed. And the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yehovah being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside the city. 17 And 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, so you won’t be swept away!”
18 And Lot said to them, “Please, not so, my masters. 19 Look, please, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your kind favor which you have done for me in saving my life. But I can’t escape to the mountains, or evil may overtake me, and I die! 20 Look, please, this city is near to run away to, and it is a little one. Please let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my life will be preserved.”
21 And he said to him, “Look, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, to 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 Tzo’ar (which means Little).
23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot got to Tzo’ar. 24 And Yehovah rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yehovah out of the sky. 25 And He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and the plants on the ground. 26 But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 And Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yehovah. 28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and he saw—and look!--the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.
29 And it was, when God brought ruin on the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had settled.
30 Now Lot went up out of Tzo’ar and lived in the mountains, and his two daughters with him; because he was afraid to live in Tzo’ar. And he lived in a cave with his two daughters. 31 Now the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on 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 And 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, “Look, I lay last night with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight, and you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.” 35 And they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger went and lay with him. And he didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up. 36 So Lot’s two daughters got pregnant from their father. 37 The firstborn gave birth to a son, and named him Moab (which means By Father). He is the father of the Moabites to this day. 38 And the younger also gave birth to a son, and named him Ben Ammi (which means Son of My People). He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.