PEV ▾Genesis ▾19 ▾Genesis 191Later that day, while the sun was going down, those other2men walked into the town called Sodom. They were God’s3But Lot kept on asking them strongly to stay with him, so they agreed, and they went with him to his house. Then Lot cooked some flat damper and other food for them, and the men ate it.4Before they went to bed, all the men that lived in Sodom, both the young men and the old men, they came and stood around Lot’s house,5and they all yelled out to Lot. They said, “Where are the6Lot went out to talk to them and shut the door behind him.7He said, “My friends, please don’t do that really bad thing.8Look, I’ve got9But the men of Sodom said to each other, “This man came from another town to live here, and he wants to tell us what to do. He can’t do that.” And they said to Lot, “Get out of our way, or we will do even worse things to you than we will do to those men.” And they pushed hard against Lot so they could get to the door, to break it down and grab the men that were inside.10But those11Then they used their power to make all the men outside the house go blind, the young men as well as the old men, so that they couldn’t find the door to get in. 12-13 Then the14So Lot went and found the men that his15Very early the next morning, the16But Lot didn’t hurry, so the angels grabbed Lot’s hand, and his wife, and his17As soon as the angels took Lot and his family out of the town, one of the angels told them, “Run away quickly to save your life. Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the flat country, but keep going until you get to the hill country. If you don’t do that, you will die, like all the people in Sodom are going to die.”18But Lot said to them, “Please sirs, no.19That’s too far. You have been very good to me and saved my life, but I can’t run fast enough to get to the hill country in time. If I try to do that, the trouble will come before I get there, and I will die too.20Look, there is a town over there. It’s not too far for me. And it is only a little town, with only a few people. Let us go there, and then don’t finish up that little town. Then we will be safe.”21The angel said, “All right, I will do that for you. I will let you go to that little town, and I will not finish it up. You will be safe there.22But go quickly, because I have to wait until you get there before I finish up Sodom.” Later, that little town was called Zoar . That name means little .23Just after the sun came up, Lot got to Zoar.24Then God sent fire down from the sky on to Sodom and Gomorrah, and he sent down burning rock, called sulphur, with that fire.25God burned up those towns, and he burned up the flat country around them too. Everybody that lived in those towns died, and all the plants in that country died too.26But Lot’s wife turned around and looked back at what was happening to Sodom, and straight away her body turned into a block of salt.27Early in the morning, Abraham went to the hill where he talked with God before.28He looked down at Sodom and Gomorrah and all the flat country around them, and he saw a lot of smoke, like a really big bush fire.29That’s how God finished up those towns in the flat country, but he remembered everything he said to Abraham, and he saved Abraham’s nephew Lot. Yes, God took Lot out of Sodom, where Lot lived, before he finished up that town.30Lot was frightened to stay in Zoar, so him and his daughters, they went and lived up in the hill country, in a big hole in the rock, called a cave.31One day the oldest daughter said to her sister, “Our father is old, and we haven’t got any kids, and there are no men around here for us to marry.32So let’s get our father drunk, and then we can pretend to be his wives, and sleep with him. Then we can have babies, so that we will always have a family.”33So that night, they got their father drunk, and the oldest daughter pretended to be his wife, and she slept with him. Lot was so drunk that he didn’t know what was happening.34The next day, the oldest daughter said to her sister, “Last night I slept with our father like I was his wife. Let’s get him drunk again tonight, then you go and pretend to be his wife. Then we will both have babies, and we will always have a family.”35So that night, they got their father drunk again, and the youngest daughter pretended to be his wife, and she slept with him. And again, Lot was so drunk that he didn’t know what was happening.36So both of Lot’s daughters had babies, and Lot was the father of those babies.37Lot’s oldest daughter had a son, and she called him Moab . That name means from our father . His mob are called the Moab tribe, and they are still living today.38Lot’s youngest daughter also had a son, and she called him Ben-Ammi . That name means son of my relative . Ben-Ammi’s mob are called the Ammon tribe, and they are still living today.Genesis 18Genesis 20