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I will go down now and see whether they have done entirely according to its outcry, which has come to Me; and if not, I will know."

And he said, "Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way." They said however, "No, but we shall spend the night in the square."

Yet he pressed them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he made a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

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."

Now behold, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them what is good in your eyes; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shelter of my roof."

But they said, "Step aside." Furthermore, they said, "This one came to sojourn, and already he is persistently acting like a judge; now we will treat you more wickedly than them." So they pressed hard against Lot and stepped up to break the door.

And they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, from small to great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the doorway.

But he hesitated. So the men seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, for the compassion of Yahweh was upon him; and they brought him out and put him outside the city.

Now it happened, as they brought them outside, one said, "Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the valley; escape to the mountains, lest you be swept away."

So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger arose and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

And Abraham said, "Because I said, surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they bore children.

So they cut a covenant at Beersheba; and Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Philistines.

Then they came to the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood and bound his son Isaac and put him on the altar, on top of the wood.

So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and walked together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived at Beersheba.

Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night. And then they arose in the morning, and he said, "Send me away to my master."

And they said, "We will call the young woman and ask about her wishes."

Then they called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" And she said, "I will go."

Thus they sent away their sister Rebekah and her nurse with Abraham's servant and his men.