Genesis 19 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Veneruntque duo angeli Sodomam vespere, et sedente Lot in foribus civitatis. Qui cum vidisset eos, surrexit, et ivit obviam eis: adoravitque pronus in terram,
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 et dixit: Obsecro, domini, declinate in domum pueri vestri, et manete ibi: lavate pedes vestros, et mane proficiscemini in viam vestram. Qui dixerunt: Minime, sed in platea manebimus.
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 Compulit illos oppido ut diverterent ad eum: ingressisque domum illius fecit convivium, et coxit azyma, et comederunt.
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 Prius autem quam irent cubitum, viri civitatis vallaverunt domum a puero usque ad senem, omnis populus simul.
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 Vocaveruntque Lot, et dixerunt ei: Ubi sunt viri qui introierunt ad te nocte? educ illos huc, ut cognoscamus eos.
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 Egressus ad eos Lot, post tergum occludens ostium, ait:
6 Lot went out to them through the door, and shut the door after himself.
7 Nolite, quæso, fratres mei, nolite malum hoc facere.
7 He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.
8 Habeo duas filias, quæ necdum cognoverunt virum: educam eas ad vos, et abutimini eis sicut vobis placuerit, dummodo viris istis nihil mali faciatis, quia ingressi sunt sub umbra culminis mei.
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 At illi dixerunt: Recede illuc. Et rursus: Ingressus es, inquiunt, ut advena; numquid ut judices? te ergo ipsum magis quam hos affligemus. Vimque faciebant Lot vehementissime: jamque prope erat ut effringerent fores.
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 Et ecce miserunt manum viri, et introduxerunt ad se Lot, clauseruntque ostium:
10 But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
11 et eos, qui foris erant, percusserunt cæcitate a minimo usque ad maximum, ita ut ostium invenire non possent.
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 Dixerunt autem ad Lot: Habes hic quempiam tuorum? generum, aut filios, aut filias, omnes, qui tui sunt, educ de urbe hac:
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 delebimus enim locum istum, eo quod increverit clamor eorum coram Domino, qui misit nos ut perdamus illos.
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 Egressus itaque Lot, locutus est ad generos suos qui accepturi erant filias ejus, et dixit: Surgite, egredimini de loco isto: quia delebit Dominus civitatem hanc. Et visus est eis quasi ludens loqui.
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 Cumque esset mane, cogebant eum angeli, dicentes: Surge, tolle uxorem tuam, et duas filias quas habes: ne et tu pariter pereas in scelere civitatis.
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 Dissimulante illo, apprehenderunt manum ejus, et manum uxoris, ac duarum filiarum ejus, eo quod parceret Dominus illi.
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 Eduxeruntque eum, et posuerunt extra civitatem: ibique locuti sunt ad eum, dicentes: Salva animam tuam: noli respicere post tergum, nec stes in omni circa regione: sed in monte salvum te fac, ne et tu simul pereas.
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 Dixitque Lot ad eos: Quæso, domine mi,
18 Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.
19 quia invenit servus tuus gratiam coram te, et magnificasti misericordiam tuam quam fecisti mecum, ut salvares animam meam, nec possum in monte salvari, ne forte apprehendat me malum, et moriar:
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 est civitas hæc juxta, ad quam possum fugere, parva, et salvabor in ea: numquid non modica est, et vivet anima mea?
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 Dixitque ad eum: Ecce etiam in hoc suscepi preces tuas, ut non subvertam urbem pro qua locutus es.
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 Festina, et salvare ibi: quia non potero facere quidquam donec ingrediaris illuc. Idcirco vocatum est nomen urbis illius Segor.
22 Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
23 Sol egressus est super terram, et Lot ingressus est Segor.
23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
24 Igitur Dominus pluit super Sodomam et Gomorrham sulphur et ignem a Domino de cælo:
24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
25 et subvertit civitates has, et omnem circa regionem, universos habitatores urbium, et cuncta terræ virentia.
25 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
26 Respiciensque uxor ejus post se, versa est in statuam salis.
26 But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 Abraham autem consurgens mane, ubi steterat prius cum Domino,
27 Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.
28 intuitus est Sodomam et Gomorrham, et universam terram regionis illius: viditque ascendentem favillam de terra quasi fornacis fumum.
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 Cum enim subverteret Deus civitates regionis illius, recordatus Abrahæ, liberavit Lot de subversione urbium in quibus habitaverat.
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 Ascenditque Lot de Segor, et mansit in monte, duæ quoque filiæ ejus cum eo (timuerat enim manere in Segor) et mansit in spelunca ipse, et duæ filiæ ejus cum eo.
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 Dixitque major ad minorem: Pater noster senex est, et nullus virorum remansit in terra, qui possit ingredi ad nos juxta morem universæ terræ.
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 Veni, inebriemus eum vino, dormiamusque cum eo, ut servare possimus ex patre nostro semen.
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 Dederunt itaque patri suo bibere vinum nocte illa. Et ingressa est major, dormivitque cum patre; at ille non sensit, nec quando accubuit filia, nec quando surrexit.
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 Altera quoque die dixit major ad minorem: Ecce dormivi heri cum patre meo, demus ei bibere vinum etiam hac nocte, et dormies cum eo, ut salvemus semen de patre nostro.
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 Dederunt etiam et illa nocte patri suo bibere vinum, ingressaque minor filia, dormivit cum eo: et ne tunc quidem sensit quando concubuerit, vel quando illa surrexerit.
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 Conceperunt ergo duæ filiæ Lot de patre suo.
36 Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.
37 Peperitque major filium, et vocavit nomen ejus Moab: ipse est pater Moabitarum usque in præsentem diem.
37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.
38 Minor quoque peperit filium, et vocavit nomen ejus Ammon, id est, Filius populi mei: ipse est pater Ammonitarum usque hodie.
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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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 (36)
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
- 19 1 Kings 9:9; Matthew 8:25–26; Psalm 116:1–19; Psalm 106:1–48; Deuteronomy 31:17
- 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
- 22 Genesis 13:10; Genesis 14:2; Exodus 32:10; Genesis 32:25–28; Deuteronomy 9:14
- 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)