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Genesis 19 ERV · ERV Bible Reading

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  SPEAKER_00: Genesis nineteen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lot of visitors That evening two angels came to the city of Sodom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lot was sitting near the city gates and he saw them.
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  SPEAKER_00: He got up and went to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: He bowed to show respect and said, Sirs, please come to my house and I will serve you.
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  SPEAKER_00: There you can wash your feet and stay the night, then tomorrow you can continue your journey.
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  SPEAKER_00: The angels answered No, we will stay the night in the city square.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Lot continued to ask them to come to his house, so they agreed and went with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lot gave them something to drink, he baked some bread for them, and they ate it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That evening, just before bedtime, men from every part of town came to Lot's house.
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  SPEAKER_00: They stood around the house and called to Lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: They said Where are the two men who came to you tonight?
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  SPEAKER_00: Bring them out to us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to have sex with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lot went outside and closed the door behind him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said to the men, No, my friends, I beg you, please don't do this evil thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man before.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will give you my daughters.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can do anything you want with them, but please don't do anything to these men.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have come to my house and I must protect them.
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  SPEAKER_00: The men surrounding the house answered Get out of our way.
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  SPEAKER_00: They said to themselves, This man Lot came to our city as a visitor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now he wants to tell us how we should live.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the men said to Lot, We will do worse things to you than to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the men started moving closer and closer to Lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were about to break down the door, but the two men staying with Lot opened the door, pulled him back inside, and closed the door.
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  SPEAKER_00: They did something to the men outside the door.
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  SPEAKER_00: They caused all these evil men, young and old to become blind.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the men trying to get into the house could not find the door.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Escape from Sodom The two men said to Lot, Are there any other people from your family living in this city?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you have any sons in laws, sons, daughters or any other people from your family here?
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  SPEAKER_00: If so, you should tell them to leave now.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are going to destroy this city.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord heard how evil this city is, so he sent us to destroy it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Lot went out and spoke to his sons in law, the men who had married his other daughters.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said hurry and leave this city.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord will soon destroy it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But they thought he was joking.
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  SPEAKER_00: The next morning at dawn the angels were trying to make Lot hurry.
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  SPEAKER_00: They said This city will be punished, so take your wife and your two daughters who are still with you and leave this place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then you will not be destroyed with this city.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Lot did not move fast enough, the two men grabbed his hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: They also took the hands of his wife and his two daughters.
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  SPEAKER_00: The two men led Lot and his family safely out of the city.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord was kind to Lot and his family, so after the two men brought Lot and his family out of the city, one of the men said, Now run to save your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't look back at the city and don't stop anywhere in the valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Run until you are in the mountains.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you stop you will be destroyed with the city.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Lot said to the two men, Sirs, please don't force me to run so far.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have been very kind to me, your servant.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have been very kind to save me, but I cannot run all the way to the mountains.
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  SPEAKER_00: What if I am too slow and something happens?
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  SPEAKER_00: I will be killed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look, there is a very small town near here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me run to that town.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can run there and be safe.
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  SPEAKER_00: The angel said to Lot, Very well, I'll let you do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will not destroy that town, but run there quickly.
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  SPEAKER_00: I cannot destroy Sodom until you are safely in that town.
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  SPEAKER_00: That town is named Zoar because it is a small town.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lot was entering the town as the sun came up, and the Lord began to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah.
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  SPEAKER_00: He caused fire and burning sulfur to fall from the sky.
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  SPEAKER_00: He destroyed the whole valley, all the cities, the people living in the cities, and all of the plants in the valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lot's wife was following behind him and looked back at the city.
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  SPEAKER_00: When she did she became a pillar of salt.
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  SPEAKER_00: Early the next morning Abraham got up and went to the place where he stood before the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Abraham looked down into the valley towards the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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  SPEAKER_00: He saw clouds of smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
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  SPEAKER_00: God destroyed the cities in the valley, but he remembered what Abraham had said.
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  SPEAKER_00: So God sent Lot away from those cities before destroying them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lot and his daughters.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lot was afraid to stay in Zoar, so he and his two daughters went to live in the mountains in a cave.
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  SPEAKER_00: One day the older daughter said to the younger Everywhere on the earth men and women marry and have a family, but our father is old, and there are no men around here to give us children.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's get our father drunk with wine, then we can have sex with him, and that way we can use our father to keep our family alive.
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  SPEAKER_00: That night the two girls went to their father and got him drunk with wine.
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  SPEAKER_00: The older daughter went and had sexual relations with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He did not even know when she came to bed or when she got up.
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  SPEAKER_00: The next day the older daughter said to the younger daughter, Last night I went to bed with my father.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's get him drunk with wine again tonight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then you can go and have sex with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: In this way we can use our father to have children and our family will not come to an end.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that night the two girls got their father drunk with wine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the younger daughter went and had sexual relationship with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, Lot did not know when she came to bed or when she got up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Both of Lot's daughters became pregnant.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their father was the father of their babies.
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  SPEAKER_00: The older daughter gave birth to a son, she named him Moab.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moab is the ancestor of all the Moabites living today.
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  SPEAKER_00: The younger daughter also gave birth to a son.
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  SPEAKER_00: She named him Ben Ami.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ben Ami is the ancestors of all the Ammonites living today.