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So the Lord said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant

So the Lord replied, "If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake."

Then Abraham said, "May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak! What if thirty are found there?" He replied, "I will not do it if I find thirty there."

Finally Abraham said, "May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He replied, "I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten."

But he urged them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate.

They shouted to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!"

He said, "No, my brothers! Don't act so wickedly!

So the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house as they shut the door.

because we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place is so great before the Lord that he has sent us to destroy it."

So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.

He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.

So when God destroyed the cities of the region, God honored Abraham's request. He removed Lot from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed the cities Lot had lived in.

Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and settled in the mountains because he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.

Come, let's make our father drunk with wine so we can have sexual relations with him and preserve our family line through our father."

So that night they made their father drunk with wine, and the older daughter came and had sexual relations with her father. But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up.

So in the morning the older daughter said to the younger, "Since I had sexual relations with my father last night, let's make him drunk again tonight. Then you go and have sexual relations with him so we can preserve our family line through our father."

So they made their father drunk that night as well, and the younger one came and had sexual relations with him. But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up.

Abraham said about his wife Sarah, "She is my sister." So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.

So Abimelech gave sheep, cattle, and male and female servants to Abraham. He also gave his wife Sarah back to him.

To Sarah he said, "Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your ‘brother.' This is compensation for you so that you will stand vindicated before all who are with you."