Genesis 19:12-38 (Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition)

¹²And they said to Lot: Hast thou here ally of thine? son in law, or sons, or daughters, all that are thine bring them out of this city:

    ¹³For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud before the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them.

    ¹⁴So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said : Arise : get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.

    ¹⁵And when it was- morning, the angels pressed him, saying: Arise, take thy wife, and the two daughters which thou hast: lest thou also perish in the wickedness of the city.

    ¹⁶And as he lingered, they took his hand, and the hand of his wife, and of his two daughters, because the Lord spared him.

    ¹⁷And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying : Save thy life : look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thyself in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.

    ¹⁸And Lot said to them: I beseech thee my Lord,

    ¹⁹Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I die :

    ²⁰There is this city here at hand, to which I may flee, it is a little one, and I shall be saved in it: is it not a little one, and my soul shall live?

    ²¹And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have heard thy prayers, not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken.

    ²²Make haste and be saved there, because I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor.

    ²³The sun was risen upon the earth, and Lot entered into Segor.

    ²⁴And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

    ²⁵And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth.

    ²⁶And his wife looking behind her, was turned into a statue of salt.

    ²⁷And Abraham got up early in the morning and in the place where he had stood before with the Lord, U

    ²⁸He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha, and the whole land of that country: and he saw the ashes rise up from the earth as the smoke of a furnace.

    ²⁹Now when God destroyed the cities of that country, remembering Abraham, he delivered Lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein he had dwelt.

    ³⁰And Lot went up out of Segor, and abode in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, (for he was afraid to stay in Segor,) and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.

    ³¹And the elder said to the younger Our father is old, and there is no man left on the earth, to come in unto us after the manner of the whole earth.

    ³²Come, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

    ³³And they made their father drink wine that night: and the elder went in and lay with her father : but he perceived not neither when his daughter lay down, nor when she rose up.

    ³⁴And the next day the elder said to the younger : Behold I lay last night with my father, let us make him drink wine also to night, and thou shalt lie with him, that we may save seed of our father.

    ³⁵They made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in, and lay with him: and neither then did he perceive when she lay down, nor when she rose up.

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

    ³⁷And the elder bore a son, and called his name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

    ³⁸The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ammon, that is, the son of my people: he is the father of the Ammonites unto this day.