Abraham: The Covenant

And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thy self in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.

And Lot said to them: I beseech thee, my Lord,

Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I die.

There is this city here at hand, to which I may flee, it is a little one, and I shall be saved in it: is it not a little one, and my soul shall live?

And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have heard thy prayers, not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken.

Make haste, and be saved there: because I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor.

The sun was risen upon the earth, and Lot entered into Segor.

And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth.

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

And Abraham got up early in the morning, and in the place where he had stood before with the Lord:

He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha, and the whole land of that country: and he saw the ashes rise up from the earth as the smoke of a furnace.

Now when God destroyed the cities of that country, remembering Abraham, he delivered Lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein he had dwelt.

And Lot went up out of Segor, and abode in the mountain, and his two daughters with him (for he was afraid to stay in Segor) and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.

And the elder said to the younger: Our father is old, and there is no man left on the earth, to come in unto us after the manner of the whole earth.

Come, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

And they made their father drink wine that night: and the elder went in, and lay with her father: but he perceived not, neither when his daughter lay down, nor when she rose up.

And the next day the elder said to the younger: Behold I lay last night with my father, let us make him drink wine also to night, and thou shalt lie with him, that we may save seed of our father.

They made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in, and lay with him: and neither then did he perceive when she lay down, nor when she rose up.

So the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father.

And the elder bore a son, and she called his name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

The younger also bore a son, and she called his name Ammon; that is, the son of my people: he is the father of the Ammonites unto this day.

Abraham removed from thence to the south country, and dwelt between Cades and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.

And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the king of Gerara sent, and took her.

And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.