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創世記 19

那兩個天使晚上到了所多瑪。羅得正坐在所多瑪城門口，看見他們，就起來迎接，臉伏於地下拜， 2 說：「我主啊，請你們到僕人家裡洗洗腳，住一夜，清早起來再走。」他們說：「不，我們要在街上過夜。」 3 羅得切切地請他們，他們這才進去到他屋裡。羅得為他們預備筵席，烤無酵餅，他們就吃了。 4 他們還沒有躺下，所多瑪城裡各處的人，連老帶少，都來圍住那房子， 5 呼叫羅得說：「今日晚上到你這裡來的人在哪裡呢？把他們帶出來，任我們所為。」 6 羅得出來，把門關上，到眾人那裡， 7 說：「眾弟兄，請你們不要做這惡事。 8 我有兩個女兒，還是處女，容我領出來任憑你們的心願而行。只是這兩個人既然到我舍下，不要向他們做什麼。」 9 眾人說：「退去吧！」又說：「這個人來寄居，還想要做官哪！現在我們要害你比害他們更甚。」眾人就向前擁擠羅得，要攻破房門。

10 只是那二人伸出手來，將羅得拉進屋去，把門關上。 11 並且使門外的人，無論老少，眼都昏迷，他們摸來摸去，總尋不著房門。

12 二人對羅得說：「你這裡還有什麼人嗎？無論是女婿，是兒女，和這城中一切屬你的人，你都要將他們從這地方帶出去。 13 我們要毀滅這地方，因為城內罪惡的聲音在耶和華面前甚大，耶和華差我們來，要毀滅這地方。」 14 羅得就出去，告訴娶了他女兒的女婿們說：「你們起來離開這地方，因為耶和華要毀滅這城。」他女婿們卻以為他說的是戲言。

15 天明了，天使催逼羅得說：「起來，帶著你的妻子和你在這裡的兩個女兒出去，免得你因這城裡的罪惡同被剿滅。」 16 但羅得遲延不走。二人因為耶和華憐恤羅得，就拉著他的手和他妻子的手，並他兩個女兒的手，把他們領出來，安置在城外。 17 領他們出來以後，就說：「逃命吧！不可回頭看，也不可在平原站住，要往山上逃跑，免得你被剿滅。」 18 羅得對他們說：「我主啊，不要如此！ 19 你僕人已經在你眼前蒙恩，你又向我顯出莫大的慈愛，救我的性命。我不能逃到山上去，恐怕這災禍臨到我，我便死了。 20 看哪，這座城又小又近，容易逃到，這不是一個小的嗎？求你容我逃到那裡，我的性命就得存活。」 21 天使對他說：「這事我也應允你，我不傾覆你所說的這城。 22 你要速速地逃到那城，因為你還沒有到那裡，我不能做什麼。」因此那城名叫瑣珥。

23 羅得到了瑣珥，日頭已經出來了。 24 當時，耶和華將硫磺與火從天上耶和華那裡降於所多瑪和蛾摩拉， 25 把那些城和全平原，並城裡所有的居民，連地上生長的，都毀滅了。 26 羅得的妻子在後邊回頭一看，就變成了一根鹽柱。 27 亞伯拉罕清早起來，到了他從前站在耶和華面前的地方， 28 向所多瑪和蛾摩拉與平原的全地觀看，不料，那地方煙氣上騰，如同燒窯一般。

29 當神毀滅平原諸城的時候，他記念亞伯拉罕，正在傾覆羅得所住之城的時候，就打發羅得從傾覆之中出來。

30 羅得因為怕住在瑣珥，就同他兩個女兒從瑣珥上去，住在山裡。他和兩個女兒住在一個洞裡。 31 大女兒對小女兒說：「我們的父親老了，地上又無人按著世上的常規進到我們這裡。 32 來，我們可以叫父親喝酒，與他同寢，這樣我們好從他存留後裔。」 33 於是那夜她們叫父親喝酒，大女兒就進去和她父親同寢。她幾時躺下，幾時起來，父親都不知道。 34 第二天，大女兒對小女兒說：「我昨夜與父親同寢，今夜我們再叫他喝酒，你可以進去與他同寢，這樣我們好從父親存留後裔。」 35 於是，那夜她們又叫父親喝酒，小女兒起來與她父親同寢。她幾時躺下，幾時起來，父親都不知道。 36 這樣，羅得的兩個女兒都從她父親懷了孕。 37 大女兒生了兒子，給他起名叫摩押，就是現今摩押人的始祖。 38 小女兒也生了兒子，給他起名叫便亞米，就是現今亞捫人的始祖。

Genesis 19

Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground. 2 And he said, “Here now, my lords, please turn in to your servant’s house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.”

And they said, “No, but we will spend the night in the open square.”

3 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.

4 Now before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house. 5 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 carnally.”

6 So Lot went out to them through the doorway, shut the door behind him, 7 and said, “Please, my brethren, do not do so wickedly! 8 See now, I have two daughters who have not known a 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 have come under the shadow of my roof.”

9 And they said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one came in to stay here, and he keeps acting as a judge; 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. 10 But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door. 11 And they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they became weary trying to find the door.

12 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! 13 For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the face of the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”

14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city!” But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking.

15 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.” 16 And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city. 17 So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.”

18 Then Lot said to them, “Please, no, my lords! 19 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. 20 See now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one; please let me escape there (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.”

21 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. 22 Hurry, escape there. For I cannot do anything until you arrive there.”

Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

23 The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar. 24 Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens. 25 So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

26 But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

27 And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord. 28 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. 29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.

30 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. 31 Now the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come in to us as is the custom of all the earth. 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve the lineage of our father.” 33 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.

34 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 the lineage of our father.” 35 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 lay down or when she arose.

36 Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father. 37 The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day. 38 And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the people of Ammon to this day.