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wash your feete, and ye shall rise vp early and goe not behinde thee, neither tarie thou in all the
your wayes. Who saide, Nay, but we will abide plaine: escape into ye mountaine, least thou be
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in the streete all night. Then he preassed vpon destroyed. 18 And Lot saide vnto them, Not so, I
them earnestly, and they turned in to him, and pray thee, my Lord. 19 Behold now, thy seruant
came to his house, and he made them a feast, and hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast
did bake vnleauened bread, and they did eate. magnified thy mercie, which thou hast shewed
4 But before they went to bed, the men of the citie, vnto me in sauing my life: and I cannot escape
euen the men of Sodom compassed the house in the mountaine, least some euill take me, and
rounde about from the yong euen to the olde, all I die. 20 See nowe this citie hereby to flee vnto,
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the people from all quarters. Who crying vnto which is a litle one: Oh let me escape thither: is it
Lot said to him, Where are the men, which came not a litle one, and my soule shall liue? 21 Then
to thee this night? bring them out vnto vs that he said vnto him, Beholde, I haue receiued thy
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we may knowe them. Then Lot went out at the request also concerning this thing, that I will
doore vnto them, and shut the doore after him, not ouerthrow this citie, for the which thou hast
7 And said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so spoken. 22 Haste thee, saue thee there: for I can
wickedly. Beholde nowe, I haue two daughters, doe nothing till thou be come thither. Therefore
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which haue not knowen man: them will I bring the name of the citie was called Zoar. 23 The
out now vnto you, and doe to them as seemeth sunne did rise vpon the earth, when Lot entred
you good: onely vnto these men doe nothing: into Zoar. 24 Then the Lord rained vpon Sodom
for therefore are they come vnder the shadowe and vpon Gomorah brimstone, and fire from the
of my roofe. 9 Then they said, Away hence, and Lord out of heauen, 25 And ouerthrewe those
they said, He is come alone as a stranger, and cities and all the plaine, and all the inhabitants
shall he iudge and rule? we will nowe deale worse of the cities; and that that grewe vpon the earth.
with thee then with them. So they preassed sore 26 Now his wife behind him looked backe, and she
And Abraham rising vp
became a pillar of salt.
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vpon Lot himselfe, and came to breake the doore. earely in ye morning went to the place, where he
10 But the men put forth their hand and pulled had stand beforethe Lord, And lookingtowarde
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Lot into the house to them and shut to ye doore. Sodom and Gomorah and toward all the land of
11 Then they smote the men that were at the the plaine, behold, he sawe the smoke of the
doore of the house with blindnes both small and lande mounting vp as the smoke of a fornace.
great, so that they were wearie in seeking the 29 But yet when God destroyed the cities of the
doore. 12 Then the men said vnto Lot, Whom
hast thou yet here? either sonne in lawe, or thy plaine, God thought vpon Abraham, and sent Lot
sonnes, or thy daughters, or whatsoeuer thou out from the middes of the destruction, when
he ouerthrewe the cities, wherein Lot dwelled.
hast in the citie, bring it out of this place. 13 For 30 Then Lot went vp from Zoar, and dwelt in the
we will destroy this place, because the crye of mountaine with his two daughters: for he feared
them is great before the Lord, and the Lord hath to tarie in Zoar, but dwelt in a caue, he, and
sent vs to destroy it. 14 Then Lot went out and his two daughters. 31 And the elder saide vnto
spake vnto his sonnes in lawe, which maried his the yonger, Our father is old, and there is not a
daughters, and said, Arise, get you out of this man in the earth, to come in vnto vs after the
place: for the Lord will destroy the citie: but he maner of all ye earth. 32 Come, wee will make
seemed to his sonnes in lawe as though he had our father drinke wine, and lie with him, that we
mocked. 15 And when the morning arose, the An- may preserue seede of our father. 33 So they made
gels hasted Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife and their father drinke wine that night, and the elder
thy two daughters which are here, lest thou be went and lay with her father: but he perceiued
destroyed in the punishment of the citie. 16 And not, neither whe she lay downe, neither when
as he prolonged the time, the men caught both she rose vp. 34 And on the morowe the elder saide
him and his wife, and his two daughters by the to the yonger, Behold, yester night lay I with my
hands (the Lord being mercifull vnto him) and father: let vs make him drinke wine this night
they brought him foorth, and set him without also, and goe thou and lie with him, that we may
the citie. 17 And when they had brought them preserue seede of our father. 35 So they made
out, the Angel said, Escape for thy life: looke their father drinke wine that night also, and the
yonger arose, and lay with him, but he perceiued