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The Book of Genesis

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1 And there came 1two angels to Sodom at even; and 2Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
1 Gen 18:2, Gen 18:22
2 Gen 11:27, Gen 12:4, Gen 13:5, Gen 14:12, 2nd Pet 2:7
2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, 1turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
1 Luke 24:29
3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did 1bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
1 Gen 18:6
4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may 1know them.
1 Gen 4:1, Judges 19:22
6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
8 Behold now, I have two 1daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
1 Judges 19:24
9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with 1blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
1 2nd Kings 6:18, Acts 13:11
12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, 1bring them out of this place:
1 Gen 7:1, Joshua 6:22, 2nd Peter 2:9
13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath 1sent us to destroy it.
1 1st Chron 21:15
14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, 1get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that 2mocked unto his sons in law.
1 Num 16:21, Num 16:45, Rev 18:4
2 Exod 9:21
15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being 1merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
1 1st Sam 2:9, 1st Chron 16:34, Psa 25:10, Psa 31:23, Psa 32:10, Psa 33:18, Psa 34:22, Psa 97:10, Psa 145:20, Prov 2:8, Eph 2:4
17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; 1look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
1 Gen 19:26, Luke 17:32
18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my LORD:
19 Behold now, thy servant hath 1found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
1 Gen 6:8, Exod 33:12, Luke 1:30, Acts 7:46
20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called aZoar.
23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
24 Then the LORD 1rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah abrimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
1 Deut 29:23, Psa 11:6, Isa 13:19, Jer 20:16, Jer 50:40, Eze 16:50, Amos 4:11, Zeph 2:9, Luke 17:29, 2nd Pet 2:6, Jude 7
25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
26 But his wife 1looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
1 Gen 19:17, Luke 17:32
27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he 1stood before the LORD:
1 Gen 18:22
28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the 1smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
1 Rev 18:9
29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God 1remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
1 Gen 8:1, Exod 2:24, 1st Sam 1:19, Psa 105:42, Psa 136:23
30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
32 Come, let us make our father 1drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
1 Gen 9:21, Prov 20:1, Eph 5:18
33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
37 And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the 1Moabites unto this day.
1 Deut 2:9
38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of 1Ammon unto this day.
1 Deut 2:19
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