² You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.^(A)

²⁶ I think that, in view of the impending^[a] crisis,^[b] it is good for you to remain as you are.^{(A) 27} Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

²⁹ For the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

²³ Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people;

¹⁴ So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, “Up, get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.^(A)

¹⁹ Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days!