Bible Verses About Sodom

Far be it from you to do such a thing - to kill the righteous along with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike! Far be it from you! Shouldn't the judge of all the earth do what is just?"

ADONAI said, "If I find in S'dom fifty who are righteous, then I will forgive the whole place for their sake."

Avraham answered, "Here now, I, who am but dust and ashes, have taken it upon myself to speak to Adonai.

What if there are five less than fifty righteous?"He said, "I won't destroy it if I find forty-five there."

He spoke to him yet again: "What if forty are found there?" He said, "For the sake of the forty I won't do it."

He said, "I hope Adonai won't be angry if I speak. What if thirty are found there?" He said, "I won't do it if I find thirty there."

He said, "Here now, I have taken it upon myself to speak to Adonai. What if twenty are found there?" He said, "For the sake of the twenty I won't destroy it."

He said, "I hope Adonai won't be angry if I speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "For the sake of the ten I won't destroy it."

ADONAI went on his way as soon as he had finished speaking to Avraham, and Avraham returned to his place.

The two angels came to S'dom that evening, when Lot was sitting at the gate of S'dom. Lot saw them, got up to greet them and prostrated himself on the ground.

He said, "Here now, my lords, please come over to your servant's house. Spend the night, wash your feet, get up early, and go on your way.""No," they answered, "we'll stay in the square."

But he kept pressing them; so they went home with him; and he made them a meal, baking matzah for their supper, which they ate.

But before they could go to bed, the men of the city surrounded the house -young and old, everyone from every neighborhood of S'dom.

They called Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to stay with you tonight? Bring them out to us! We want to have sex with them!"

Lot went out to them and stood in the doorway, closing the door behind him,

and said, "Please, my brothers, don't do such a wicked thing.

Look here, I have two daughters who are virgins. Please, let me bring them out to you, and you can do with them what seems good to you; but don't do anything to these men, since they are guests in my house."

"Stand back!" they replied. "This guy came to live here, and now he's decided to play judge. For that we'll deal worse with you than with them!"Then they crowded in on Lot, in order to get close enough to break down the door.

But the men inside reached out their hands, brought Lot into the house to them and shut the door.

Then they struck the men at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they couldn't find the doorway.

The men said to Lot, "Do you have any people here besides yourself? Whomever you have in the city - son-in-law, your sons, your daughters - bring them out of this place;

because we are going to destroy it. ADONAI has become aware of the great outcry against them, and ADONAI has sent us to destroy it."

Lot went out and spoke with his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, "Get up and leave this place, because ADONAI is going to destroy the city." But his sons-in-law didn't take him seriously.

When morning came, the angels told Lot to hurry. "Get up," they said, "and take your wife and your two daughters who are here; otherwise you will be swept away in the punishment of the city."

But he dallied, so the men took hold of his hand, his wife's hand and the hands of his two daughters -ADONAI was being merciful to him - and led them, leaving them outside the city.