Lot Welcomes the Angels (Judges 19:1–30)
1 UDB That evening, the two angels arrived in Sodom. Lot was sitting at the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to greet them and prostrated himself with his face on the ground. BSB BSB: Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,
2 UDB He said to them, "Gentlemen, please stay in my house tonight. You can wash your feet, and early tomorrow you can continue your journey." But they said, "No, we will just sleep in the city square." BSB BSB: and said, “My lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant; wash your feet and spend the night. Then you can rise early and go on your way.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
3 UDB But Lot kept insisting strongly that they sleep in his house. So they entered his house with him, and he prepared a meal for them. He baked some bread without yeast, and they ate it. BSB BSB: But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
4 UDB After they finished eating, before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, all of them, from the young ones to the old ones, surrounded the house. BSB BSB: Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.
5 UDB They called out to Lot, saying, "Where are the men who came to your house this evening? Bring them out, so that we can sleep with them!" BSB BSB: They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”
6 UDB Lot went outside the house and shut the door behind him, so that they could not go inside. BSB BSB: Lot went outside to meet them, shutting the door behind him.
7 UDB He said to them, "My friends, do not do such an evil thing! BSB BSB: “Please, my brothers,” he pleaded, “don’t do such a wicked thing!
9 UDB But they replied, "Get out of our way! You are a foreigner; so you have no right to tell us what is right! We will do worse things to you than we will do to them!" Then they lunged toward Lot, and tried forcefully to break down the door. BSB BSB: “Get out of the way!” they replied. And they declared, “This one came here as a foreigner, and he is already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them.” And they pressed in on Lot and moved in to break down the door.
10 UDB But the two angels opened the door carefully, reached out their hands, and pulled Lot inside the house. Then they quickly shut the door. BSB BSB: But the men inside reached out, pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
11 UDB Then they caused all the men who were outside the door of the house, young and old, to become blind, so that they could not find the door. BSB BSB: And they struck the men at the entrance, young and old, with blindness, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.
Lot Flees to Zoar 12 UDB Then the two angels said to Lot, "Who else is with you here? If you have sons or sons-in-law or daughters or anyone else in the city who is related to you, take them out of the city BSB BSB: Then the two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
13 UDB because we are going to destroy this place. Yahweh has heard many terrible things that some people have said about this city, and he has sent us to destroy it." BSB BSB: because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it.”
14 UDB So Lot went and spoke to the men who had pledged to marry his daughters. He said to them, "Hurry! Get out of this city because Yahweh is about to destroy it!" But his future sons-in-law thought he was joking. BSB BSB: So 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.
15 UDB As it was about to dawn the next morning, the two angels urged Lot, saying, "Get up quickly! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here with you and leave! If you do not, you will be swept away when we destroy the city!" BSB BSB: 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.”
17 UDB When they were outside the city, one of the angels said, "If you want to stay alive, run away quickly! Do not look back! And do not stop anywhere in the valley! Flee to the hills! If you do not, you will die!" BSB BSB: As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
18 UDB But Lot said to one of them, "No, sir, do not make me do that! BSB BSB: But Lot replied, “No, my lords, please!
19 UDB Please, listen. You have been pleased with me, your servant, and have been very kind to me and spared my life. But I cannot flee to the mountain. If I try to do that, I will die in this disaster. BSB BSB: Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.
20 UDB Listen to me. There is a town nearby. Let me run there now. It is only a small town, and if you do not destroy it, our lives will be saved if we go there." BSB BSB: Look, there is a town nearby where I can flee, and it is a small place. Please let me flee there—is it not a small place? Then my life will be saved.”
21 UDB One of the angels said to Lot, "I will allow you to do what you have requested. And I will not destroy the town you are talking about. BSB BSB: “Very well,” he answered, “I will grant this request as well, and will not demolish the town you indicate.
22 UDB But hurry! Run there because I cannot destroy anything until you arrive." People later called the name of the town Zoar, which means 'not-important,' because Lot said that it was a small village. BSB BSB: Hurry! Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.” That is why the town was called Zoar.
23 UDB As the sun was rising, Lot and his family arrived in the town which is now called Zoar. BSB BSB: And by the time the sun had risen over the land, Lot had reached Zoar.
The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Luke 17:20–37)
25 UDB In that way, he destroyed those cities and all the people who were living in those cities. He also destroyed everything in the valley, including all the plants. BSB BSB: Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.
26 UDB But Lot's wife stopped and looked back to see what was happening, so she died, and her body later became a pillar of salt. BSB BSB: But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 UDB That morning, Abraham got up and went to the place where he had stood in front of Yahweh. BSB BSB: Early the next morning, Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
28 UDB He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and he was surprised to see that all over the valley, smoke was rising, like the smoke of a huge furnace. BSB BSB: He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
29 UDB So when God destroyed those cities in the valley, he did not forget to help Abraham, and he rescued Lot from the disaster that occurred in the cities where Lot lived. BSB BSB: So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
Lot and His Daughters 32 UDB Let us make our father drink wine until he gets drunk. Then we can sleep with him without him knowing it. In that way he will cause us to become pregnant and we can bear children who will be our father's descendants." BSB BSB: Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”
33 UDB So that night they caused their father to become drunk. And the older daughter went in and slept with her father, but he was so drunk that he did not know when she lay down with him or when she got up. BSB BSB: So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
34 UDB The next day, his older daughter said to his younger daughter, "Listen to me. Last night I slept with our father. Let us cause him to become drunk again tonight! This time you can go and sleep with him. If he sleeps with you, you can become pregnant, and that way you can have a child, too." BSB BSB: The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
35 UDB So that night, they caused their father to become drunk with wine again, and then his younger daughter went and slept with him. But again, he was so drunk that he did not know when she lay down with him or when she got up. BSB BSB: So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
36 UDB So Lot caused his two daughters to become pregnant. BSB BSB: Thus both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.
37 UDB The older one later gave birth to a son, whom she named Moab. He became the ancestor of the Moab people. BSB BSB: The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.
38 UDB The younger one also gave birth to a son, whom she named Ben-Ammi. He became the ancestor of the people that are now called the Ammon people. BSB BSB: The younger daughter also gave birth to a son, and she named him Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites of today.