¹² The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you?^(A) Get them out of here, ¹³ because we^(B) are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great^(C) that he has sent us to destroy it.”^(D)

¹⁴ So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry^[a] his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!^(E)” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.^(F)

¹⁵ With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away^(G) when the city is punished.^(H)”

¹⁶ When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters^(I) and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them.^(J)

²⁴ Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur^(A) on Sodom and Gomorrah^(B)—from the Lord out of the heavens.^{(C) 25} Thus he overthrew those cities^(D) and the entire plain,^(E) destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.^{(F) 26} But Lot’s wife looked back,^(G) and she became a pillar of salt.^(H)