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And he said, My lords, turn aside, I pray you, into your servants house and spend the night and wash your feet; then rise up early in the morning and go on your way. And they said, No, we will spend the night in the street.

But Lot urged them greatly; and they turned in to him and entered into his house; and he made them a feast and baked unleavened cakes and they ate.

But before they lay down, the men of the city, that is, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people of the town;

And they called to Lot and said to him, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them.

Behold now, I have two daughters who have, not known man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you please; only to these men do nothing; for they have come under the protection of my roof.

And they said, Get away. And they said again, This fellow came to sojourn among us, and now he tries to judge us; and they said to Lot, Now we will deal worse with you than with them. Then Lot fought desperately with them, and they drew near to break the door.

And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, from the least to the greatest, so that they became tired trying in vain to find the door.

But Lot lingered; then the angels held his hand, the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, because the LORD pitied him; and they took him out and set him outside the city.

And it came to pass when they had brought them out of the city, they said to Lot: Now escape for your life; do not look back nor stop anywhere in the plain, but flee to the mountain lest you be consumed.

And they made their father drink wine that night; and the first-born went in and lay with her father; and he did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

So they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger went in and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

And Abraham said, Because I thought, perhaps there is no fear of God in this country; and they will slay me for my wifes sake.

So Abraham prayed to God and God healed Abimeleck and his wife and his maidservants, and they bore children.

And he said, For these seven ewe lambs you shall take of my hands that they may be a witness for me that I have digged this well.

Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba; then Abimeleck and Phichol, the general of the army, rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

And Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac his son, and he took the fire in a container and a knife in his hand, and they went both of them together.

And Abraham said, God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son. So they went both of them together.

And they came to the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

So Abraham returned to his young men and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba, and Abraham dwelt in Beer-sheba.

And when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, I will draw water for your camels also, until they are all watered.