Behold, here is
a city by, to flee unto, and it is a little one, let me save myself
therein: is it not a little one, that my soul may live? And he said to
him: see I have received thy request as concerning this thing, that I
will not overthrow this city for the which thou hast spoken. Haste
thee, and save thyself there, for I can do nothing till thou be come in
thither. And therefore the name of the city is called Zoar. And the sun
was upon the earth when Lot was entered into Zoar. Then the LORD rained
upon Sodom and Gomorra, brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven,
and overthrew those cities and all the region, and all that dwelled in
the cities, and that that grew upon the earth. And Lot's wife looked
behind her, and was turned in to a pillar of salt. Abraham rose up
early and got him to the place where he stood before the LORD, and
looked toward Sodom and Gomorra and toward all the land of that
country. And as he looked: behold, the smoke of the country arose as it
had been the smoke of a furnace. But yet when God destroyed the cities
of the region, he thought upon Abraha: and sent Lot out from the danger
of the overthrowing, when he overthrew the cities where Lot dwelled.
And Lot departed out of Zoar and dwelled in the mountains and his two
daughters with him for he feared to tarry in Zoar: he dwelt therefore
in a cave, both he and his two daughters also. Then said the elder unto
the younger our father is old, and there are no more men in the earth
to come in unto us after the manner of all the world. Come therefore,
let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him that we
may save seed of our father. And they gave their father wine to drink
that same night. And the elder daughter went and lay with her father.
And he perceived it not, neither when she lay down, neither when she
rose up. And on the morrow the elder said unto the younger: behold,
yesternight lay I with my father. Let us give him wine to drink this
night also, and go thou and lie with him, and let us save seed of our
father. And they gave their father wine to drink that night also. And
the younger arose and lay with him. And he perceived it not: neither
when she lay down, neither when she rose up. Thus were both the
daughters of Lot with child by their father. And the elder bare a son
and called him Moab, which is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
And the younger bare a son and called him Ben Ammi, which is the father
of the children of Ammon unto this day.
Chapter .xx.
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