Book of Genesis 23
for which thou hast spoken.
22 Make haste, and be saved there: because
I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither.
Therefore the name of that city was called Segor.
23 The sun was risen upon the earth, and Lot
entered into Segor.
24 And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Go-
morrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of
heaven.
25 And he destroyed these cities, and all the
country about, all the inhabitants of the cities,
and all things that spring from the earth.
26 And his wife looking behind her, was
turned into a statue of salt.
27 And Abraham got up early in the morning,
and in the place where he had stood before with
the Lord:
28 He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha,
and the whole land of that country: and he saw
the ashes rise up from the earth as the smoke of
a furnace.
29 Now when God destroyed the cities of that
country, remembering Abraham, he delivered
Lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein
he had dwelt.
30 And Lot went up out of Segor, and abode
in the mountain, and his two daughters with him
(for he was afraid to stay in Segor) and he dwelt
in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.
31 And the elder said to the younger: Our
father is old, and there is no man left on the
earth, to come in unto us after the manner of
the whole earth.
32 Come, let us make him drunk with wine,
and let us lie with him, that we may preserve
seed of our father.
33 And they made their father drink wine that
night: and the elder went in, and lay with her
father: but he perceived not, neither when his
daughter lay down, nor when she rose up.
34 And the next day the elder said to the
younger: Behold I lay last night with my father,
let us make him drink wine also to night, and
thou shalt lie with him, that we may save seed
of our father.
35 They made their father drink wine that
night also, and the younger daughter went in,
and lay with him: and neither then did he per-
ceive when she lay down, nor when she rose up.
36 So the two daughters of Lot were with child
by their father.
37 And the elder bore a son, and she called
his name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites
unto this day.
38 The younger also bore a son, and she called
his name Ammon; that is, the son of my people:
he is the father of the Ammonites unto this day.Chapter 20
Abraham removed from thence to the south
country, and dwelt between Cades and Sur, and
sojourned in Gerara.
2 And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister.
So Abimelech the king of Gerara sent, and took
her.
3 And God came to Abimelech in a dream by
night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for
the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a
husband.
4 Now Abimelech had not touched her, and
he said: Lord, wilt thou slay a nation that is
ignorant and just?
5 Did not he say to me: She is my sister: and
she say, He is my brother? in the simplicity of
my heart, and cleanness of my hands have I done
this.
6 And God said to him: And I know that
thou didst it with a sincere heart: and therefore