The two angels came to Sedom in the evening, while Lot was sitting at the gate of Sedom. Lot saw them, and he got up to greet them, and he bowed with his face to the ground.

He said, Behold [Please] now my lords, please [now] turn in to your servant’s house. Stay over night, bathe your feet, and get up early and continue on your way. They said, No, we will spend the night in the street.

He urged them greatly, and they turned in to him and came to his house. He made a feast for them, and baked matzos [for them], and they ate.

They had not yet lain down when the men of the city, the men of Sedom, surrounded the house—young and old alike—all the people from one end [of the city] to the other end.

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.

Lot went out to them in front of the entrance, shutting the door behind him.

He said, My brothers, please [now] do not act wickedly.

Behold! I have two daughters who have never known a man, I will bring them out to you, and do with them as you please; only do nothing to these men, since after all, they came under the shelter of my roof.

They said, Step back out of the way! They said, This one came as an immigrant, and now he wants to be a judge. We will now deal worse with you than with them. They pushed hard against Lot, and came near to break the door.

The men put out their hands, and pulled Lot to them, into the house, and closed the door.

The men who were at the entrance of the house, they struck with blindness—young and old alike—so that they wearied themselves trying to find the entrance.

The men said to Lot, Who else do you have here—a son-in-law, your sons, your daughters? Whoever you have in the city, bring them out of his place.

We are going to destroy this place, for the wailing concerning them has become great in the presence of Adonoy; and Adonoy has sent us to destroy it.

Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who had married his daughters. He said [to them], Get up! Get out of this place, for Adonoy is going to destroy the city! He appeared as a comedian in the eyes of his sons-in-law.

At the break of dawn, the angels urged Lot on, saying, Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here [who are found to be faithful to you], lest you be swept away in the iniquity of the city.

He hesitated, and the men grabbed his hand and the hand of his wife and two daughters, for Adonoy had pity on him. They brought him out and placed him outside the city.

When they were brought out [of the city], he [the angel] said, Escape [Have pity] for your life! Do not look back! Do not remain anywhere in the valley [plain]. Escape to the mountain, lest you be swept away.

Lot said to them, Please, not so my Master. [Please, now, my Master.]

Behold your servant has found favor in Your eyes [before You]. Great is your kindness [goodness] that you have done with me, to keep me alive. I cannot escape to the mountain, lest the evil attach itself to me and I die.

Behold, please, this city is near [enough] to flee there. It is insignificant. Let me escape there! It is insignificant, and my life will be saved.

He said to him, See I have also given you consideration regarding this. I will not overturn the city that you mentioned [for which you have beseeched].

Hurry, escape there, for I can do nothing until you get there. The city was therefore called Zoar.

The sun had risen upon the earth, when Lot came to Zoar.

Adonoy caused to rain upon Sedom and Amorah—sulfur and fire—from [before] Adonoy, from heaven.

He overturned these cities, and the entire plain, and all those who lived in the cities and all that grew upon the ground.

His [Lot’s] wife looked behind him; and she became a pillar of salt.

Avraham got up early in morning [to return] to the place where he had stood before the Presence of Adonoy [to the place where he had served in prayer before Adonoy].

He [Avraham] stared at Sedom and Amorah, and the whole land of the plain, and he saw the heavy smoke rising from the earth like the smoke of a furnace.

When Elohim destroyed the cities of the plain; Elohim remembered Avraham, and He sent Lot out of the upheaval when He overturned the cities in which Lot had lived.

Lot went up from Zoar and lived in the mountain; and his two daughters went with him, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.

The older girl said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no man [left] on earth who will come into us in the normal manner.

Come let us urge our father to drink wine, and sleep with him; that we may give life to seed [children] from our father.

They urged wine upon their father that night; and the older girl went in and slept with her father. He was not aware that she lay down or got up.

The next day, the older girl said to the younger, Last night I slept with my father. Let us urge wine upon him tonight also, and you go in and sleep with him that we may give life to seed from our father.

That night also, they urged their father [to drink] wine. The younger went up and slept with him, and he was not aware that she lay down or got up.

Lot’s two daughters became pregnant from their father.

The older girl gave birth to a son and she named him Moav. He is the ancestor of the Moabite nation even to this day.

The younger girl also gave birth to a son, and she named him Ben-Ami. He is the ancestor of the people of Ammon even to this day.