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Genesis, starting at chapter 19
{19:1} 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, {19:2} and he said, "See now, my lords,
please turn aside 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."
{19:3} 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. {19:4} 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. {19:5} 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."
{19:6} Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after
him. {19:7} He said, "Please, my brothers, don't act so wickedly.
{19:8} 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."
{19:9} They said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one fellow
came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now
will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the
man Lot, and drew near to break the door. {19:10} But the men reached
out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the
door. {19:11} 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.
{19:12} The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here?
Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the
city, bring them out of the place: {19:13} for we will destroy this
place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the LORD
that the LORD has sent us to destroy it."
{19:14} 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
the LORD will destroy the city."
But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking. {19:15} 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." {19:16} But he lingered; and the men grabbed
his hand, his wife's hand, and his two daughters' hands, the LORD
being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of
the city. {19:17} 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!"
{19:18} Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, my lord. {19:19} 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.
{19:20} 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."
{19:21} 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. {19:22} Hurry, escape there, for I can't do
anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was
called [1>]Zoar.[<1]
{19:23} The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
{19:24} Then the LORD rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire
from the LORD out of the sky. {19:25} He overthrew those cities, all
the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on
the ground. {19:26} But his wife looked back from behind him, and she
became a pillar of salt.
{19:27} Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he
had stood before the LORD. {19:28} He looked toward Sodom and
Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw
that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
{19:29} It happened, when God destroyed 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 lived.
{19:30} 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. {19:31} 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. {19:32} Come, let's make
our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve
our father's seed." {19:33} 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. {19:34} It came to pass on
the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay
last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight.
You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."
{19:35} 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. {19:36} Thus both of Lot's daughters were with child by their
father. {19:37} The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is
the father of the Moabites to this day. {19:38} The younger also bore
a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children
of Ammon to this day.
{20:1} Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and
lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.
{20:2} Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister."
Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. {20:3} But God came to
Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a
dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's
wife."
{20:4} Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you
kill even a righteous nation? {20:5} Didn't he tell me, 'She is my
sister?' She, even she herself, said, 'He is my brother.' In the
integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this."
{20:6} God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the
integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you
from sinning against me. Therefore I didn't allow you to touch her.
{20:7} Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and
he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don't restore her,
know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."
{20:8} Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his
servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very
scared. {20:9} Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What
have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have
brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me
that ought not to be done!" {20:10} Abimelech said to Abraham, "What
did you see, that you have done this thing?"
{20:11} Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is
not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.' {20:12}
Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not
the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. {20:13} It
happened, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I
said to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall show to me.
Everywhere that we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"
{20:14} Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female
servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to
him. {20:15} Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell
where it pleases you." {20:16} To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given
your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a
covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are
vindicated."
{20:17} Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife,
and his female servants, and they bore children. {20:18} For the LORD
had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because
of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
{21:1} The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to
Sarah as he had spoken. {21:2} Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son
in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. {21:3}
Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him,
[2>]Isaac.[<2] {21:4} Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was
eight days old, as God had commanded him. {21:5} Abraham was one
hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him. {21:6} Sarah
said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."
{21:7} She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would
nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."
{21:8} The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on
the day that Isaac was weaned. {21:9} Sarah saw the son of Hagar the
Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. {21:10} Therefore
she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son
of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."
{21:11} The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of
his son. {21:12} God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in
your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all
that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your
seed be called. {21:13} I will also make a nation of the son of the
handmaid, because he is your seed." {21:14} Abraham rose up early in
the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to
Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent
her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
{21:15} The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child
under one of the shrubs. {21:16} She went and sat down opposite him, a
good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see
the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her
voice, and wept. {21:17} God heard the voice of the boy.
The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her,
"What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of
the boy where he is. {21:18} Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in
your hand. For I will make him a great nation."
{21:19} God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went,
filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink. {21:20} God was
with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as
he grew up, an archer. {21:21} He lived in the wilderness of Paran.
His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
{21:22} It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the
captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all
that you do. {21:23} Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you
will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son.
But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to
me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."
{21:24} Abraham said, "I will swear." {21:25} Abraham complained to
Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had
violently taken away. {21:26} Abimelech said, "I don't know who has
done this thing. You didn't tell me, neither did I hear of it, until
today."
{21:27} Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech.
Those two made a covenant. {21:28} Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the
flock by themselves. {21:29} Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these
seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"
{21:30} He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand,
that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well." {21:31}
Therefore he called that place [3>]Beersheba,[<3] because they both
swore there. {21:32} So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech
rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into
the land of the Philistines. {21:33} Abraham planted a tamarisk tree
in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the
Everlasting God. {21:34} Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of
the Philistines many days.
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Footnotes:
[1] {19:22} Zoar means "little."
[2] {21:3} Isaac means "He laughs."
[3] {21:31} Beersheba can mean "well of the oath" or "well of seven."
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