But earlier than that they had fallen asleep, the townsfolk— Sodomites—press around the residence, from boys to graybeards, the full inhabitants from so far as the outskirts. "Where are the folks who visited you this night? " they name to Lot. "Bring them out for us," they ask. "We need to know their intimate methods. " Now Lot got here to the door, ultimate it in the back of him. "Brothers, please do not act via exhibiting contempt. pay attention, i've got daughters who've no longer recognized a guy in detail. allow me deliver those out for you: deal with them as you please. merely go away the viewers untouched, carry no hand to them: i've got introduced them below my roof's wing. " "Get out of the way," one acknowledged. "He comes the following to proportion our protect and already he palms down the legislation. Now you'll comprehend greater than them, a slightly of our eighty five 8 6 contempt. " They pressed opposed to the guy, opposed to Lot, have been able to holiday down the door. yet from inside a hand stretched out, introduced Lot towards these viewers in the home. Now they close him in. They blinded them with mild: the folks on the door, boys in addition to graybeards. they'd grope for the door deal with vainly. The viewers with Lot acknowledged: "Are there others of yours—a son-in-law, sons, daughters—anywhere within the urban, to be collected from this position? The offense has risen to Yahweh's ear. Yahweh sends us—to carry down this loud violence. " Lot hurries to talk to his sons-in-law—those his daughters ready to marry. "Pack up now, go away this place," Lot acknowledged. "Yahweh is ready to overturn the town. " Now watch: the sons-in-law see only—in him—a funny story on them. Now the sunlight started to upward thrust; the angels pressed Lot on. "Get up," they stated, "gather your spouse, your daughters which are left—or be amassed into the overwhelm of citizens—in this city's sin. " He wavered; the figures grasped his arm, his wife's, the fingers of his daughters—it used to be Yahweh achieving out to him. They introduced him out, preventing simply open air town. forty five So it used to be: whereas being introduced out, one stated to them, "Pity your lot—run, do not glance again, do not cease until eventually the finish of the valley. get away to the mountain—or be beaten. " "My lord," Lot acknowledged to them, "please now not so. take heed to me: if this servant has warmed your center, evoked your gentle pity—you have stored me alive—then see: i will not live to tell the tale within the mountains, the place the hand of contempt manufacturers me. glance in its place at this city inside my selected lot, sufficiently small to miss. permit me fly there, please, it's small, insignificant—and so will I be there. " "Hear," he responded, "I pity your lot back, won't overturn this urban you converse for. Hurry, run—I will do not anything until eventually you are there. " And this can be how one got here to name this urban Smallah. The solar rose above the earth as Lot got here to Smallah. forty six Now Yahweh spilled on Sodom and Gomorrah a volcanic rain: fireplace from Yahweh, from the sky. those towns he overturned, with the total valley, the entire electorate within the towns and crops within the earth. at the back of him, Lot's spouse stopped to appear back—and crystallized right into a statue of salt. Abram arose that morning, moved quickly to where he had final confronted Yahweh, had stood there with him.