Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in Sodom’s gate. When Lot saw them, he arose to his feet and bowed himself with his face toward the ground. He declared, “Here now, my lords, please turn in to your servant’s house and spend the night there, and wash your feet; then you may wake up early and be on your way.” And they said, “No, but we will spend the night in the open square.” But he insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and entered his house. Then he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. Now before they laid down to sleep, the men of Sodom in every quarter surrounded the house.
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 by heart.” So Lot went out to them through the doorway, shut the door behind him, and said, “Please, my brethren, do not do so wickedly! I have two daughters who have not known this man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish; only do nothing to these men, since this is the reason they came under the shadow of my roof.” And they said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one came in to stay here, and he acts as a judge all over again; now we will deal worse with you than with them.” So they pressed hard against the man Lot and came near to break down the door. But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them and shut the door tightly.
And they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, that they became tired trying to find the doorway. Then the men said to Lot, “Have you anyone else here? Son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city—take them out of this place! For we will destroy it, because the outcry against them has increased before the face of the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to tear it down.” So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, “Get up immediately, for the Lord will destroy this city!” But to his sons-in-law, he seemed to be silly.
When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, “Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.” And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife’s and two daughters’ hands, and they brought him out and set him outside the city that the Lord had assigned to them. So it came to pass when they had brought them outside, that he said, “Flee for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Flee to the mountains, lest you be killed.”
Then Lot said to them, “Please, no, my lords! Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil overtake me and I die. See now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one; please let me escape there, and my soul shall live.” And he said to him, “See, I have favored you concerning this thing also, in that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken. Hurry and run there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore, the name of the city was Zoar. The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar. Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah from the Lord out of the heavens. So He threw again those cities, all the plain, the cities’ inhabitants, and what grew on the ground. But his wife turned away behind him and she became a small pillar of salt. And Abraham went early to the place where he had stood before the Lord.
Then he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain; and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land which went up like the smoke of a furnace. When God destroyed the plain’s cities, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the overthrow’s midst when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt. Then Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the mountains, and his two daughters were with him; for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar. And he and his two daughters dwelt in a cave. Now the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come into us as is the custom of all the earth. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve his lineage.” So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. It happened on the next day that the firstborn said to the younger, “Indeed 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 our father’s lineage.”
Then they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she laid down or arose. Therefore, both the daughters of Lot were with the child of their father. The firstborn bore a first son and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites. The younger one also bore a second son and called his name Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the city of Ammon to this day.