Catholic Public Domain Version

Genesis 19:21-34 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

21. And he said to him: "Behold, even now, I have heard your petitions about this, not to overturn the city on behalf of which you have spoken.

22. Hurry and be saved there. For I cannot do anything until you enter there." For this reason, the name of that city is called Zoar.

23. The sun had risen over the land, and Lot had entered into Zoar.

24. Therefore, the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah sulphur and fire, from the Lord, out of heaven.

25. And he overturned these cities, and all the surrounding region: all the inhabitants of the cities, and everything that springs from the land.

26. And his wife, looking behind herself, was turned into a statue of salt.

27. Then Abraham, rising up in the morning, in the place where he had stood before with the Lord,

28. looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and the entire land of that region. And he saw embers rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.

29. For when God overthrew the cities of that region, remembering Abraham, he freed Lot from the overthrow of the cities, in which he had dwelt.

30. And Lot ascended from Zoar, and he stayed on the mountain, and likewise his two daughters with him, (for he was afraid to stay in Zoar) and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.

31. And the elder said to the younger: "Our father is old, and no man remains in the land who can enter to us according to the custom of the whole world.

32. Come, let us inebriate him with wine, and let us sleep with him, so that we may be able to preserve offspring from our father."

33. And so they gave their father wine to drink that night. And the elder went in, and she slept with her father. But he did not perceive it, neither when his daughter lay down, nor when she rose up.

34. Likewise, the next day, the elder said to the younger: "Behold, yesterday I slept with my father, let us give him wine to drink yet again this night, and you will sleep with him, so that we may save offspring from our father."