Abraham Intercedes for Sodom

¹⁶ Then the men rose from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them ^(A)to send them on the way.

²⁰ And the Lord said, “Because ^(A)the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their ^(B)sin is very grave, ^21 (C)I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, ^(D)I will know.”

²² Then the men turned away from there ^(E)and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord.

Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed^(A)

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—^(B)take them out of this place! ¹³ For we will destroy this place, because the ^(C)outcry against them has grown great before the face of the Lord, and ^(D)the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”

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

¹⁵ When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, ^(H)“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 ^(I)took hold of his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the ^(J)Lord being merciful to him, ^(K)and they brought him out and set him outside the city. ¹⁷ So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that ^[a]he said, ^(L)“Escape for your life! ^(M)Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape ^(N)to the mountains, lest you be ^[b]destroyed.”