The Holy Ivri Heritage Bible

1The two malakhim [angels] came to Sedom [Sodom] in the evening. Lot was sitting at the gate of Sedom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, bowed with his face to the ground, 2And said: “Behold, Adoni [my lords] turn aside into your servant’s house, spend the night, wash your feet, and rise early to go on your way.” They said: “No, we will spend the night in the street.” 3But he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house. He made them a mishteh [feast/banquet] and baked matzot [unleavened bread], and they ate. 4Before they lay down, the men of the city — the men of Sedom, both young and old, all the people — surrounded the house. 5They called to Lot: “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them.” 6Lot went out to them at the entrance, shut the door behind him, 7And said: “I beg you, brothers, do not commit ra [wickedness/evil]. 8Behold, I have two daughters who have not known a man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof.” 9They said: “Stand back! This fellow came to sojourn, and now he acts as a judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them.” They pressed hard against Lot and drew near to break the door. 10But the men reached out their hands, brought Lot into the house, and shut the door. 11They struck the men at the door with blindness, both small and great, so that they wore themselves out trying to find the door. 12The men said to Lot: “Have you anyone else here — sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone else in the city? Bring them out of this place. 13For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has grown great before Yahuah, and Yahuah has sent us to destroy it.” 14Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said: “Up, get out of this place, for Yahuah is about to destroy the city!” But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking. 15At dawn the malakhim urged Lot: “Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the avon [iniquity/punishment] of the city.” 16But he lingered. So the men seized him, his wife, and his two daughters by the hand — Yahuah being merciful to him — and they brought him out and set him outside the city. 17As they brought them out, they said: “Escape for your life! Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.” 18Lot said: “Oh no, Adoni [my lords]! 19Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown great mercy in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest disaster overtake me and I die. 20Behold, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Let me escape there — is it not a little one? — and my life will be saved.” 21He said: “Behold, I grant you this request also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. 22Hurry, escape there, for I can do nothing until you arrive.” Therefore the name of the city was called Tzoar [Zoar]. 23The sun had risen on the earth when Lot entered Tzoar. 24Then Yahuah rained on Sedom and Amorah brimstone and fire from Yahuah out of the shamayim [heavens]. 25He overthrew those cities, all the valley, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. 26But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a netziv [pillar/monument] of salt. 27Avraham rose early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahuah. 28He looked toward Sedom and Amorah and all the land of the valley, and saw, and behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace. 29So it was, when Elohim destroyed the cities of the valley, Elohim remembered Avraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived. 30Lot went up out of Tzoar and lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Tzoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters. 31The older said to the younger: “Our father is old, and there is no man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth. 32Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” 33They made their father drink wine that night, and the older went in and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose. 34The next day, the older said to the younger: “Behold, I lay with my father last night. Let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” 35They made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger lay with him. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose. 36Thus both daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father. 37The older bore a son and called his name Moav [Moab] — “from father.” He is the father of the Moavim to this day. 38The younger also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi [Ammon] — “son of my kin.” He is the father of the Ammonim to this day.