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Gallery Serendipity Copyright Eric Morris 2006 |
The two angels reached Sodom in the evening, as Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he got up to gret them, and bowing down with his face to the ground, he said, please gentlemen, come aside into your servants house for the night, and bathe your feet: you can get up early to continue your journey. But no they replied, No we shall pass the night in the town square. He urged them so strongly , however, that they turned aside to his place and entered his house. he prepared a meal for them, baking cakes without leaven, and they dined.
Before they went to bed, all the townsmen of Sodom,
both young and old- all the people to the last man- closed in on
the house. They called to Lot and said to him, Where are the men who came
to your house tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have intimacies
with them.Lot went out to meet them at the entrance. When he had shut the
door
behind him, he said, I beg you, my brothers, not
to do this wicked thing. I have two daughters who have never had
intercourse with men. Let me bring them out to you and you may do to them
as you please. But don't do anything to these me, for you know they
have come under the shelter of my roof. They replied, Stand back! This
fellow, they sneered, came here as an immigrant, and now he dares
to give orders! We'll treat you worse than them! With that, the pressed
hard against Lot, moving in closer to break down the door. But his
guests put out their hands, pulled Lot inside with them and closed
the door; at the same time they struck the men at the entrance of the house,
one and all, with such a blinding light that they were utterly unable
to reach the doorway Genesis Ch.19 v1-11
New American Bible
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