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1 veneruntque duo angeli Sodomam vespere sedente Loth in foribus civitatis qui cum vidisset surrexit et ivit obviam eis adoravitque pronus in terra
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The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
2 et dixit obsecro domini declinate in domum pueri vestri et manete ibi lavate pedes vestros et mane proficiscimini in viam vestram qui dixerunt minime sed in platea manebimus
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“My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
3 conpulit illos oppido ut deverterent ad eum ingressisque domum illius fecit convivium coxit azyma et comederunt
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But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate.
4 prius autem quam irent cubitum viri civitatis vallaverunt domum a puero usque ad senem omnis populus simul
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Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house.
5 vocaveruntque Loth et dixerunt ei ubi sunt viri qui introierunt ad te nocte educ illos huc ut cognoscamus eos
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They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”
6 egressus ad eos Loth post tergum adcludens ostium ait
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Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7 nolite quaeso fratres mei nolite malum hoc facere
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and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing.
8 habeo duas filias quae necdum cognoverunt virum educam eas ad vos et abutimini eis sicut placuerit vobis dummodo viris istis nihil faciatis mali quia ingressi sunt sub umbraculum tegminis mei
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Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
9 at illi dixerunt recede illuc et rursus ingressus es inquiunt ut advena numquid ut iudices te ergo ipsum magis quam hos adfligemus vimque faciebant Loth vehementissime iam prope erat ut refringerent fores
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“Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
10 et ecce miserunt manum viri et introduxerunt ad se Loth cluseruntque ostium
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But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door.
11 et eos qui erant foris percusserunt caecitate a minimo usque ad maximum ita ut ostium invenire non possent
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Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
12 dixerunt autem ad Loth habes hic tuorum quempiam generum aut filios aut filias omnes qui tui sunt educ de urbe hac
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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? Get them out of here,
13 delebimus enim locum istum eo quod increverit clamor eorum coram Domino qui misit nos ut perdamus illos
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because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
14 egressus itaque Loth locutus est ad generos suos qui accepturi erant filias eius et dixit surgite egredimini de loco isto quia delebit Dominus civitatem hanc et visus est eis quasi ludens loqui
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So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
15 cumque esset mane cogebant eum angeli dicentes surge et tolle uxorem tuam et duas filias quas habes ne et tu pariter pereas in scelere civitatis
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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 when the city is punished.”
16 dissimulante illo adprehenderunt manum eius et manum uxoris ac duarum filiarum eius eo quod parceret Dominus illi
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When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the LORD was merciful to them.
17 et eduxerunt eum posueruntque extra civitatem ibi locutus est ad eum salva animam tuam noli respicere post tergum nec stes in omni circa regione sed in monte salvum te fac ne et tu simul pereas
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As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”
18 dixitque Loth ad eos quaeso Domine mi
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But Lot said to them, “No, my lords, please!
19 quia invenit servus tuus gratiam coram te et magnificasti misericordiam tuam quam fecisti mecum ut salvares animam meam nec possum in monte salvari ne forte adprehendat me malum et moriar
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Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die.
20 est civitas haec iuxta ad quam possum fugere parva et salvabor in ea numquid non modica est et vivet anima mea
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Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”
21 dixitque ad eum ecce etiam in hoc suscepi preces tuas ut non subvertam urbem pro qua locutus es
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He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of.
22 festina et salvare ibi quia non potero facere quicquam donec ingrediaris illuc idcirco vocatum est nomen urbis illius Segor
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But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar. )
23 sol egressus est super terram et Loth ingressus est in Segor
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By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.
24 igitur Dominus pluit super Sodomam et Gomorram sulphur et ignem a Domino de caelo
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Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
25 et subvertit civitates has et omnem circa regionem universos habitatores urbium et cuncta terrae virentia
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Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.
26 respiciensque uxor eius post se versa est in statuam salis
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But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 Abraham autem consurgens mane ubi steterat prius cum Domino
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Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
28 intuitus est Sodomam et Gomorram et universam terram regionis illius viditque ascendentem favillam de terra quasi fornacis fumum
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He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
29 cum enim subverteret Deus civitates regionis illius recordatus est Abrahae et liberavit Loth de subversione urbium in quibus habitaverat
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So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
30 ascenditque Loth de Segor et mansit in monte duae quoque filiae eius cum eo timuerat enim manere in Segor et mansit in spelunca ipse et duae filiae eius
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Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.
31 dixitque maior ad minorem pater noster senex est et nullus virorum remansit in terra qui possit ingredi ad nos iuxta morem universae terrae
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One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth.
32 veni inebriemus eum vino dormiamusque cum eo ut servare possimus ex patre nostro semen
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Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.”
33 dederunt itaque patri suo bibere vinum nocte illa et ingressa est maior dormivitque cum patre at ille non sensit nec quando accubuit filia nec quando surrexit
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That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
34 altera quoque die dixit maior ad minorem ecce dormivi heri cum patre meo demus ei bibere vinum etiam hac nocte et dormies cum eo ut salvemus semen de patre nostro
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The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.”
35 dederunt et illa nocte patri vinum ingressaque minor filia dormivit cum eo et nec tunc quidem sensit quando concubuerit vel quando illa surrexerit
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So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
36 conceperunt ergo duae filiae Loth de patre suo
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So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.
37 peperitque maior filium et vocavit nomen eius Moab ipse est pater Moabitarum usque in praesentem diem
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The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab ; he is the father of the Moabites of today.
38 minor quoque peperit filium et vocavit nomen eius Ammon id est filius populi mei ipse est pater Ammanitarum usque hodie
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The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi ; he is the father of the Ammonites of today.
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