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daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the L
ORD
will destroy this city. But he seemed
as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
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And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and
thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
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And while
he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of
his two daughters; the L
ORD
being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him
without the city.
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And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy
life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be
consumed.
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And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:
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Behold now, thy servant hath found
grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving
my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
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Behold now, this
city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (
is
it not a little one?) and
my soul shall live.
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And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also,
that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
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Haste thee, escape thither; for
I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
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The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
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Then the L
ORD
rained upon
Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the L
ORD
out of heaven;
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And he overthrew
those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the
ground.
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But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
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And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the L
ORD
:
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And
he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo,
the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
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And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered
Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which
Lot dwelt.
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And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for
he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
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And the firstborn
said unto the younger, Our father
is
old, and
there is
not a man in the earth to come in unto us after
the manner of all the earth:
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Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him,
that we may preserve seed of our father.
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And they made their father drink wine that night: and
the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when
she arose.
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And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold,
I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in,
and
lie
with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
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And they made their father drink wine that
night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor
when she arose.
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Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
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And the firstborn
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