This post was created in September 2017.

19 July 2022 -- I've since abandoned this specific project, and am working on something a bit different. This page remains for anyone who might find it interesting.

This is part of my translation project. This is a very rough draft, basically a lightly edited version of the RV.

Translation

1 And the two angels came to Sodom at evening, and Lot was sitting in Sodom’s gate. And Lot saw them, and got up to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 2 And he said, Please, now, my lords, please turn to your servant’s house and stay the night, and wash your feet. Then you can get up early and go on your way.

And they said, No, but we will stay the night in the street.

3 And he insisted very much, and they turned in to him and entered his house, and he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, young and old, all the people from every quarter. 5 And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men who came in to you tonight? Bring them out so that we can have our way with them.

6 And Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door behind him. 7 And he said, Please, my brother, do not do such a wicked thing. 8 Please, now, I have two daughters who have never been with a man. Please, let me bring them out to you, so that you can do what you want to them. Only do not do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.

9 And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one came to live here, a foreigner, and now he acts like a judge. We will do worse to you than to them. And they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door.

10 But the men put out their hand and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door. 11 And they struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and large, so that they tired themselves out trying to find the door.

12 And the men said to Lot, Do you have anyone else here? A son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, whoever else you have in the city — bring them out of this place, 13 because we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before Yahweh, and Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.

14 And Lot went out and spoke to his sons in law, who were engaged to marry his daughters, and said, Get up and get out of this place, because Yahweh will destroy the city. But it seemed to his sons in law that he was joking.

15 And at daybreak, the angels hurried Lot, saying, Get up and take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, so that you are not consumed with the evil of this city. 16 But he delayed, and the men took hold of his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hand of his two daughters (Yahweh was merciful to them), and brought them out and set them outside the city. 17 Then, when they brought them out, he said, Escape for your life. Do not look behind you, or stay anywhere in the Kikkar. Escape to the hills, or you will be consumed.

18 And Lot said to them, Oh, no, My Lord. 19 Please, now, your servant has found grace in your sight, and you have shown me great mercy in saving my life. I cannot escape to the mountain, or some evil will overtake me, and I will die. 20 Please, now, this city is close to flee to — isn’t it a little one? — and I will survive.

21 And he said to him, Look: I will grant you this thing as well, that I will not overthrow the city you speak of. 22 Hurry, escape there, because I cannot do anything until you arrive there. This is why the name of the city was called Zoar.

23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. 24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh out of the sky. 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the Kikkar, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and the plant life. 26 But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

27 And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh. 28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Kikkar, and saw, and there was the smoke of the land going up like smoke from a furnace. 29 Now, when God destroyed the cities of the Kikkar, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities were Lot lived.

30 And Lot went up from Zoar and lived in the hills, with his two daughters, because he was afraid to live in Zoar, and he lived in a cave with his two daughters.

31 And the firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come in to us according to the custom of all the earth. 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, to preserve seed from our father. 33 And they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when they lay down or when she got up.

34 And then the next day the firstborn said to the younger, Look: last night I lay with my father. Let us make him drink wine again tonight, and you go in and lie with him, to preserve seed from our father. 35 And they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she got up. 36 So both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.

37 And the firstborn gave birth to a son, and called his name Moab, who is the father of the Moabites to this day. 38 And the younger also gave birth to a son, and called his name Ben-Ammi, who is the father of the benei Ammon to this day.