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1 Ya estaba oscureciendo cuando los dos ángeles llegaron a Sodoma. Lot estaba sentado a la entrada de la ciudad. Cuando los vio, se levantó a saludarlos, inclinándose delante de ellos en señal de respeto,
1 The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,
2 y les dijo: ―Señores, vengan a mi casa para que se laven los pies y duerman. Mañana temprano podrán continuar el viaje. ―No, gracias —dijeron ellos—. Pasaremos la noche en la plaza.
2 and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.” They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.”
3 Pero Lot insistió tanto, que ellos le aceptaron la invitación y se fueron con él a la casa. Allí él les sirvió una buena cena con pan sin levadura, recién horneado.
3 He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
4 Todavía no se habían acostado, cuando todos los hombres de Sodoma, desde el más joven hasta el más viejo, rodearon la casa.
4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
5 Entonces llamaron a Lot y le dijeron: ―¿Dónde están los hombres que han venido a quedarse en tu casa? ¡Sácalos, pues queremos tener relaciones sexuales con ellos!
5 They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”
6 Lot salió a hablar con ellos y, después de cerrar la puerta,
6 Lot went out to them through the door, and shut the door after himself.
7 les dijo: ―Por favor, amigos míos, no vayan a cometer semejante maldad.
7 He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.
8 Miren, tengo dos hijas vírgenes. Se las daré para que hagan con ellas lo que bien les parezca, pero no les hagan nada a estos hombres, pues yo los invité a quedarse esta noche en mi casa.
8 See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
9 ―¡Quítate de en medio! —le respondieron—. ¿Con qué derecho nos vas a ordenar lo que debemos hacer? ¡No olvides que eres un extranjero! ¡Ahora te trataremos peor que a ellos! Así que comenzaron a maltratar a Lot, y se acercaron a la puerta para echarla abajo.
9 They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.
10 Pero los dos varones agarraron a Lot, lo metieron a la casa, y cerraron la puerta.
10 But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
11 Después dejaron ciegos a los hombres que estaban allí —desde el más joven hasta el más viejo—, de modo que no pudieron encontrar la puerta.
11 They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
12 Luego le preguntaron a Lot: ―Si tienes en la ciudad hijos, hijas, yernos y cualquier otro familiar ¡sácalos de inmediato!
12 The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:
13 El Señor nos ha enviado a destruir esta ciudad, porque ha recibido muchísimas quejas contra los habitantes de este lugar. Así que el Señor no puede perdonarlos más, y ha decidido destruir este lugar.
13 for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.”
14 Inmediatamente Lot fue y les dijo a los novios de sus hijas: ―¡Apresúrense! ¡Salgan de la ciudad, porque el Señor va a destruirla! Pero los jóvenes creyeron que Lot estaba bromeando.
14 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
15 Al amanecer, los ángeles le insistieron a Lot: ―¡Date prisa! ¡Toma a tu esposa y a tus dos hijas y sal con ellas de la ciudad, si no quieren morir junto con todos los demás!
15 When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”
16 Como Lot se tardaba mucho en salir, los ángeles lo tomaron de la mano, junto con su esposa y sus hijas, y los sacaron de la ciudad. Hicieron esto, porque el Señor tuvo compasión de Lot y de su familia.
16 But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.
17 Apenas salieron de la ciudad, uno de los ángeles les dijo: ―¡Corran para que se salven de morir! ¡No miren hacia atrás, ni se detengan en ninguna parte de esta llanura! ¡Vayan a las montañas, para que no perezcan!
17 It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”
18 Pero Lot les dijo: ―Por favor, señores míos, ya que han sido tan buenos y misericordiosos conmigo al salvarme la vida, yo les ruego que no me envíen a las montañas, ya que me da miedo que la destrucción me alcance en el camino, y muera.
18 Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.
19 Not in this translation
19 See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
20 Más bien déjenme ir a aquella pequeña ciudad que está más cerca de aquí, para salvar mi vida. En realidad es una ciudad muy pequeña.
20 See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live.”
21 ―Muy bien —dijo uno de los ángeles—. Acepto tu súplica y no destruiré esa pequeña ciudad. Pero ¡date prisa! porque nada podemos hacer hasta que te hayas refugiado en ella. Desde aquel tiempo esa ciudad fue llamada Zoar (ciudad pequeña).
21 He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
22 Not in this translation
22 Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
23 Salía el sol cuando Lot llegó a Zoar.
23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
24 Entonces el Señor hizo que desde el cielo lloviera fuego y azufre sobre Sodoma y Gomorra.
24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
25 De este modo destruyó completamente esas ciudades, junto con todos sus habitantes. También acabó con toda la vegetación que había en esa llanura.
25 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
26 Pero la esposa de Lot miró hacia atrás, y quedó convertida en una estatua de sal.
26 But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 Aquella mañana, Abraham se levantó temprano y regresó al lugar donde había estado conversando con el Señor.
27 Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.
28 Miró hacia Sodoma y Gomorra, y hacia toda la llanura, y vio que del suelo salía humo, como el humo que sale de un horno.
28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
29 Fue así como Dios destruyó esas ciudades de la llanura donde Lot había vivido. Pero Dios se acordó de Abraham y, por eso, libró a Lot de perecer en aquella catástrofe.
29 When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
30 Después Lot, por miedo a la gente de Zoar, dejó la ciudad, junto con sus dos hijas, y se fue a vivir a una cueva que había en la montaña.
30 Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.
31 Un día, la hija mayor le dijo a su hermana: ―Ya nuestro padre está muy viejo y, además, no ha quedado hombre alguno en estos lugares con los que podamos casarnos, como es la costumbre.
31 The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.
32 Así que vamos a emborracharlo, y nos acostamos con él. De este modo lograremos que nuestro padre tenga descendientes.
32 Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
33 Aquella noche emborracharon a su padre. Entonces la hija mayor tuvo relaciones con él. Pero Lot no se dio cuenta de lo que pasó.
33 They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose.
34 A la mañana siguiente la mayor le dijo a la menor: ―Anoche me acosté con mi padre. Vamos a emborracharlo también esta noche, para que tú te acuestes con él; y de esta manera nuestro padre tendrá descendencia.
34 It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
35 Aquella noche volvieron a darle a beber vino hasta emborracharlo. Enseguida, la menor entró, se acostó con él, y salió. Pero Lot no se dio cuenta de lo que pasó.
35 They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up.
36 Así fue que las dos hijas quedaron embarazadas de su padre.
36 Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.
37 El hijo de la mayor se llamó Moab, y fue el padre de los actuales moabitas.
37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.
38 El hijo de la menor fue llamado Ben Amí, y fue el padre de los actuales amonitas.
38 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Abraham
Called by God, he left home in faith to become the father of a chosen people.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 12–25
Ben-Ammi
A son of Lot and ancestor of the Ammonites, who settled east of the Jordan.
Cited in the guide: Gen. 19:38
Lot
Abraham's nephew who chose the plain of Jordan and settled near Sodom.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11–14; 19
Lot's wife
Lot's unnamed wife, led out of Sodom with her husband and two daughters, who looked back and became a pillar of salt.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 19:26; Luke 17:32
Moab
A son of Lot and ancestor of the Moabites, who settled east of the Dead Sea.
Cited in the guide: Gen. 19:37
Sarah
Wife of Abraham who bore Isaac in her old age, long after hope seemed gone.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 17-21
Cross references (34)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Genesis 18:1–5; Genesis 18:22; Hebrews 13:2; Job 31:32
- 2 Genesis 18:4; Luke 24:28–29; Hebrews 13:2; Acts 16:15; Judges 19:17–21
- 3 Genesis 18:6–8; Judges 6:19; 1 Samuel 28:24; 1 Corinthians 5:8; Exodus 12:39
- 4 Genesis 13:13; Proverbs 4:16; Genesis 18:20; Exodus 23:2; Jeremiah 5:31
- 5 Judges 19:22; Isaiah 3:9; Jude 7; Leviticus 18:22; Romans 1:26–27
- 6 Judges 19:23
- 7 Leviticus 20:13; Romans 1:24; 1 Corinthians 6:9–11; Deuteronomy 23:17; Jude 7
- 8 Judges 19:24; Genesis 19:31–38; Mark 9:6; Romans 3:8; Judges 9:15
- 9 Exodus 2:14; Genesis 13:12; 2 Peter 2:7–8; Daniel 3:19–22; Ecclesiastes 9:3
- 11 2 Kings 6:18; Acts 13:11; Jeremiah 2:36; Deuteronomy 28:28–29; Isaiah 57:10
- 12 Genesis 7:1; 2 Peter 2:7; Revelation 18:4; 2 Peter 2:9; Numbers 16:26
- 13 Genesis 18:20; Matthew 13:49–50; Jude 7; Revelation 16:1–12; Acts 12:23
- 14 Numbers 16:21; Numbers 16:26; Jeremiah 51:6; Numbers 16:45; Revelation 18:4–8
- 15 Numbers 16:24–27; Luke 13:24–25; Revelation 18:4; Proverbs 6:4–5; Genesis 19:22
- 16 Romans 9:15–16; Titus 3:5; Psalm 103:13; Psalm 111:4; Exodus 34:6
- 17 Matthew 24:16–18; Luke 9:62; Philippians 3:13–14; Genesis 19:26; Genesis 19:22
- 18 Genesis 32:26; Isaiah 45:11; Acts 9:13; Acts 10:14; 2 Kings 5:11–12
- 20 Psalm 119:175; Proverbs 3:5–7; Isaiah 55:3; Genesis 19:30; Genesis 12:13
- 21 Psalm 145:19; Psalm 102:17; Job 42:8–9; Psalm 34:15; Luke 11:8
- 24 Deuteronomy 29:23; Isaiah 13:19; Jude 7; Amos 4:11; 2 Peter 2:6
- 25 Psalm 107:34; Genesis 14:3; Genesis 13:10
- 26 Luke 17:31–32; Genesis 19:17; Hebrews 10:38; Proverbs 14:14; Numbers 16:38
- 27 Habakkuk 2:1; Psalm 5:3; Hebrews 2:1; Genesis 18:22–33; Ezekiel 16:49–50
- 28 Revelation 18:9; Revelation 9:2; Jude 7; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 18:18
- 29 Genesis 8:1; Deuteronomy 9:5; Psalm 25:7; Genesis 18:23–33; Hosea 11:8
- 30 Genesis 19:19; Genesis 19:17; Genesis 14:22; James 1:8; Deuteronomy 34:3
- 31 Deuteronomy 25:5; Isaiah 4:1; Genesis 6:4; Genesis 4:1; Genesis 16:2
- 32 Leviticus 18:6–7; Genesis 11:3; Mark 12:19; Genesis 9:21; Proverbs 23:31–33
- 33 Habakkuk 2:15–16; Leviticus 18:6–7; Proverbs 20:1; Proverbs 23:29–35
- 34 Jeremiah 3:3; Isaiah 3:9; Jeremiah 6:15; Jeremiah 5:3; Jeremiah 8:12
- 35 1 Corinthians 10:11–12; Ecclesiastes 7:26; 1 Peter 4:7; Luke 21:34; Psalm 8:4
- 36 Habakkuk 2:15; Genesis 19:8; 1 Samuel 15:33; Leviticus 18:6–7; Judges 1:7
- 37 Deuteronomy 2:9; Numbers 22:1–41; Judges 3:1–31; Deuteronomy 23:3; Ruth 4:10
- 38 Deuteronomy 2:19; 1 Samuel 11:1–15; Judges 10:6–11:40; Isaiah 11:14; Zephaniah 2:9
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And again, referring to the destruction of the Sodomites, the Scripture says, "Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah fire and brimstone from the Lord out of heaven." For it here points out that the Son, who had also been talking with Abraham, had received power to judge the Sodomites for their wickedness.
For after saying to them in the plural, "Behold, my lords, turn aside into your servant's house," etc., yet it is afterwards said, "And the angels laid hold upon his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, because the Lord was merciful unto him.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
… the Image, the Seal; "Who being the Effulgence of His glory and the Impress of His Essence," and "the Image of His Goodness," and "Him hath God the Father sealed." Lord, King, He That Is, The Almighty. "The Lord rained down fire from the Lord;" and "A sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of Thy Kingdom;" and "Which is and …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
As says the Scripture: "And that night the elder went in and lay with her father; and Lot knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose." And the same thing took place in the case of the younger: "And he knew not," it is said, "when she slept with him, nor when she arose." Since, therefore, Lot knew …
And Lot said unto them, I pray thee, Lord, since thy servant hath found grace in thy sight," etc.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)