Genesis - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 17
The Five Books of Moses
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be angry now, and I will speak; if thirty are found there? 1 will not do it if I find thirty} See, now,I will dare to speak to my LORD; if there are found twenty there? I will not
destroy it for the sake ofthe twenty} Let not my Loran
be angry now, and I will speak once more ; if ten are found there I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten} Then the Loma went to do what
He had told to Abraham; and Abra- ham returned to his own place. Wiz Qzsirxxcliuxt uf §¤h¤m for $2::. 19 And two of the Messengers came to Sodom at evening, when Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot saw and rose to invite them, and bowed his face to the ground, and See now my good sirs, turn aside to the house of your servant, and rest yourselves, and wash your feet, and quench your thirst, and you can then proceed on your journey! No; for we must go further} Then he pressed them much; so
they turned with him, and came to his house; and he made them »a repast with unleavened cakes, and they partook of them. It was not yet time for sleep, when the men of the city, the men of Sodom, sur~ rounded the house, from youths to old men ; in fact, all the people ofthe neighbourhood; and called out to Where are the men who came to you t0—night? bring them out to us, that we may ravish them! Lot however went out to them to
the porch ; and the doors were closed My friends, do not commit such wickedness. Look now, I have two virgin daughters; I will bring them to you, and you can do to them whatever you like; only to these men do not such a thing; for as a protection from it, they came to the shelter of Be off with
that! This fellow came here a foreigner, and he dictates decisions; now it shall be worse for you than for Then they rushed to the man Lot
with a vengeance, and attempted to break the gates. But the men put out their hands, and brought Lotto themselves into the house, and closed the gates; and they struck the men in front ofthe house with blindness, from the youngest to the oldest, so that they could not find the door—way. Now,
who is with you here, relative, or son or daughter, or any one that you have in this city; let them go out from this place, for we shall destroy this place, for its greet shriek has come before the EvER—L1vms; and the EvER—L1v1NG has sent us to Lot therefore went out and spoke to his relatives, to the husbands of his daughters, and said, ‘ Come let us go out from this place, for the Evan-Livmo will destroy the But he was considered a fool in the
eyes of his relatives. So, when dawn arrived,-the Messengers said to Lot, 'Get up, take your wife and your two daughters, and go out, for the crimes of this city are completed} But he hesitated ; so the men
seized hold of his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, from the pity of the LORD towards him, and brought them out, and placed them outside the city. And when they had brought F ly for your life ·! Look not behind you, and delay not, in all the plain; take flight to the mountains ; take yourself there} Oh ! my
Lords, let now your servant find favour in your sight, and increase the kind— ness which you have done to me, to enliven my soul; for I am not able to escape to the hills before the disaster will overtake me, and I shall die. See now this city, it is easy to escape there, in a little time I can escape to there; is it not a trifle? and my life will be preservedf Yes, I will
accept your presence, also for this thing, I will not destroy this town on behalf of which you have spoken. Be quick to escape there, for I am not able to do the thing until you arrive He accordingly ca1l_ed the name of that place Tzoar} The 1 Tride.
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