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Genesis 18

 ¹And Jehovah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre. And he sat at the tent-door in the heat of the day.

 ²And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, three men standing near him. And when he saw [them], he ran to meet them from the tent-door, and bowed himself to the earth,

 ³and said, Lord, if now I have found favour in thine eyes, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant.

 ⁴Let now a little water be fetched, that ye may wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

 ⁵And I will fetch a morsel of bread; and refresh yourselves; after that ye shall pass on; for therefore have ye passed on towards your servant. And they said, So do as thou hast said.

 ⁶And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, Knead quickly three seahs of wheaten flour, and make cakes.

 ⁷And Abraham ran to the herd, and took a calf tender and good, and gave [it] to the attendant; and he hasted to dress it.

 ⁸And he took thick and sweet milk, and the calf that he had dressed, and set [it] before them; and he stood before them under the tree, and they ate.

 ⁹And they said to him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

 ¹⁰And he said, I will certainly return to thee at [this] time of the year, and behold, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah was listening at the tent-door, which was behind him.

 ¹¹Now Abraham and Sarah were old [and] advanced in age: it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

 ¹²And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am become old, shall I have pleasure, and my lord old?

 ¹³And Jehovah said to Abraham, Why is this, that Sarah laughs, saying, Shall I indeed bear, when I am become old?

 ¹⁴Is [any] matter too wonderful for Jehovah? At the time appointed I will return to thee, at [this] time of the year, and Sarah shall have a son.

 ¹⁵And Sarah denied, saying, I did not laugh; for she was afraid. And he said, No; but thou didst laugh.

 ¹⁶And the men rose up thence, and looked toward Sodom; and Abraham went with them to conduct them.

 ¹⁷And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing?

 ¹⁸Since Abraham shall indeed become a great and mighty nation; and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him.

 ¹⁹For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice, in order that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham what he hath spoken of him.

 ²⁰And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grievous,

 ²¹I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me; and if not, I will know [it].

 ²²And the men turned thence, and went towards Sodom; and Abraham remained yet standing before Jehovah.

 ²³And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also cause the righteous to perish with the wicked?

 ²⁴There are perhaps fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not forgive the place for the sake of the fifty righteous that are therein?

 ²⁵Far be it from thee to do so, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that the righteous should be as the wicked -- far be it from thee! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?

 ²⁶And Jehovah said, If I find at Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will forgive all the place for their sakes.

 ²⁷And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have ventured to speak unto the Lord; I, who am dust and ashes.

 ²⁸Perhaps there may want five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city on account of the five? And he said, If I shall find forty-five there, I will not destroy [it].

 ²⁹And he continued yet to speak with him, and said, Perhaps there may be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty's sake.

 ³⁰And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry that I speak! Perhaps there may be thirty found there. And he said, I will not do it if I find thirty there.

 ³¹And he said, Behold now, I have ventured to speak with the Lord. Perhaps there may be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for the twenty's sake.

 ³²And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, that I speak yet but this time! Perhaps there may be ten found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for the ten's sake.

 ³³And Jehovah went away when he had ended speaking to Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.

Genesis 19

 ¹And the two angels came to Sodom at even. And Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed down, the face toward the ground,

 ²and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and lodge, and wash your feet; and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, No; but we will pass the night in the open place.

 ³And he urged them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house. And he made them a repast, and baked unleavened cakes; and they ate.

 ⁴Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, from the youngest to the oldest -- all the people from every quarter.

 ⁵And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that have come in to thee to-night? bring them out to us that we may know them.

 ⁶And Lot went out to them to the entrance, and shut the door after him,

 ⁷and said, I pray you, my brethren, do not wickedly!

 ⁸Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known a man: let me now bring them out to you; and do to them as is good in your sight: only, to these men do nothing; for therefore have they come under the shadow of my roof.

 ⁹And they said, Back there! And they said [again], This one came to sojourn, and he must be a judge? Now we will deal worse with thee than with them. And they pressed hard on the man -- on Lot; and drew near to break the door.

 ¹⁰And the men stretched out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

 ¹¹And they smote the men that were at the entrance of the house with blindness, from the smallest to the greatest; and they wearied themselves to find the entrance.

 ¹²And the men said to Lot, Whom hast thou here besides? a son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and all whom thou hast in the city -- bring [them] out of the place.

 ¹³For we are going to destroy this place, because the cry of them is great before Jehovah, and Jehovah has sent us to destroy it.

 ¹⁴And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, Up, go out of this place, for Jehovah will destroy the city. But he was as if he jested, in the sight of his sons-in-law.

 ¹⁵And as the dawn arose, the angels urged Lot, saying, Up, take thy wife and thy two daughters who are present, lest thou perish in the iniquity of the city.

 ¹⁶And as he lingered, the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, Jehovah being merciful to him; and they led him out, and set him without the city.

 ¹⁷And it came to pass when they had brought them outside, that he said, Escape for thy life: look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest thou perish.

 ¹⁸And Lot said to them, Not [so], I pray thee, Lord;

 ¹⁹behold now, thy servant has found favour in thine eyes, and thou hast magnified thy goodness, which thou hast shewn to me in preserving my soul alive; but I cannot escape to the mountain, lest calamity lay hold on me, that I die.

 ²⁰Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is small: I pray thee, let me escape thither -- is it not small? -- and my soul shall live.

 ²¹And he said to him, Behold, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken.

 ²²Haste, escape thither; for I cannot do anything until thou art come there. Therefore the name of the city is called Zoar.

 ²³The sun rose upon the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

 ²⁴And Jehovah rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven,

 ²⁵and overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew upon the ground.

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

 ²⁷And Abraham rose early in the morning [and went] to the place where he had stood before Jehovah;

 ²⁸and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and lo, a smoke went up from the land as the smoke of a furnace.

 ²⁹And 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 dwelt.

 ³⁰And Lot went up from 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.

 ³¹And the first-born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the land to come in to us after the manner of all the earth:

 ³²come, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father.

 ³³And they gave their father wine to drink that night. And the first-born went in, and lay with her father, and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising.

 ³⁴And it came to pass on the next day that the first-born said to the younger, Lo, I lay last night with my father: let us give him wine to drink to-night also, and go thou in, lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father.

 ³⁵And they gave their father wine to drink that night also. And the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising.

 ³⁶And both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.

 ³⁷And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites to this day.

 ³⁸And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; the same is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

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Matthew 6

 ¹Take heed not to do your alms before men to be seen of them, otherwise ye have no reward with your Father who is in the heavens.

 ²When therefore thou doest alms, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

 ³But thou, when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand does;

 ⁴so that thine alms may be in secret, and thy Father who sees in secret will render [it] to thee.

 ⁵And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets so that they should appear to men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

 ⁶But *thou*, when thou prayest, enter into thy chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who sees in secret will render [it] to thee.

 ⁷But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as those who are of the nations: for they think they shall be heard through their much speaking.

 ⁸Be not ye therefore like them, for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye beg [anything] of him.

 ⁹Thus therefore pray *ye*: Our Father who art in the heavens, let thy name be sanctified,

 ¹⁰let thy kingdom come, let thy will be done as in heaven so upon the earth;

 ¹¹give us to-day our needed bread,

 ¹²and forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors,

 ¹³and lead us not into temptation, but save us from evil.

 ¹⁴For if ye forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father also will forgive you [yours],

 ¹⁵but if ye do not forgive men their offences, neither will your Father forgive your offences.

 ¹⁶And when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, downcast in countenance; for they disfigure their faces, so that they may appear fasting to men: verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

 ¹⁷But *thou*, [when] fasting, anoint thy head and wash thy face,

 ¹⁸so that thou mayest not appear fasting unto men, but to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father who sees in secret shall render [it] to thee.