^{1 Ref} And two of the messengers come towards Sodom at even, and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot seeth, and riseth to meet them, and boweth himself -- face to the earth,

^{2 Ref} and he saith, `Lo, I pray you, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, unto the house of your servant, and lodge, and wash your feet -- then ye have risen early and gone on your way;' and they say, `Nay, but in the broad place we do lodge.'

^{3 Ref} And he presseth on them greatly, and they turn aside unto him, and come in unto his house; and he maketh for them a banquet, and hath baked unleavened things; and they do eat.

^{4 Ref} Before they lie down, the men of the city -- men of Sodom -- have come round about against the house, from young even unto aged, all the people from the extremity;

^{5 Ref} and they call unto Lot and say to him, `Where `are' the men who have come in unto thee to-night? bring them out unto us, and we know them.'

^{6 Ref} And Lot goeth out unto them, to the opening, and the door hath shut behind him,

^{7 Ref} and saith, `Do not, I pray you, my brethren, do evil;

^{8 Ref} lo, I pray you, I have two daughters, who have not known any one; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do to them as `is' good in your eyes; only to these men do not anything, for therefore have they come in within the shadow of my roof.'

^{9 Ref} And they say, `Come nigh hither;' they say also, `This one hath come in to sojourn, and he certainly judgeth! now, we do evil to thee more than `to' them;' and they press against the man, against Lot greatly, and come nigh to break the door.

¹⁰ And the men put forth their hand, and bring in Lot unto them, into the house, and have shut the door;

^{11 Ref} and the men who `are' at the opening of the house they have smitten with blindness, from small even unto great, and they weary themselves to find the opening.