KJV Bible MWP Genesis 19:1 - 20:18

GENESIS Chapters 19 - 20 KJV Bible (1769 Edition) Modern Words Paraphrase (MWP) Copyright (c) 2007 David A. Wagner.

Genesis Chapter 19

(19:1) And there came two angels to Sodom at evening; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; (19:2) And he said, “See now, my lords, turn in, I ask you, into your servant's house, and stay all night, and wash your feet, and you will rise up early, and go on your ways.” And they said, “No; but we will stay in the street all night. “(19:3) And he insisted upon them greatly; and they turned in to him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. (19:4) But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, encompassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: (19:5) And they called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men that came in to you this night? bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.” (19:6) And Lot went out at the door to them, and shut the door after him, (19:7) And said, “I ask you, brothers, do not so wickedly.(19:8) See now, I have two daughters that have not had sex with a man; let me, I ask you, bring them out to you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes: only to these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.” (19:9) And they said, “Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to visit, and he will be a judge: now will we deal worse with you, than with them.” And they pressed extremely upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. (19:10) But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. (19:11) And they struck the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they tired themselves to find the door. (19:12) And the men said to Lot, “Have you here any besides? son in law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whatever you have in the city, bring them out of this place: (19:13) For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them is growing great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.” (19:14) And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, “Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city.” But he seemed as one that kidded to his sons in law.

(19:15) And when the morning arose, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters, which are here; should you be consumed in the iniquity of the city. (19:16) And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful to him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. (19:17) And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for your life; look not behind you, neither stay you in all the plain; escape to the mountain, should you be consumed. (19:18) And Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my Lord: (19:19) See now, your servant has found grace in your sight, and you have magnified your mercy, which you have showed to me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, should some evil take me, and I die: (19:20) See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape there, (is it not a little one?) and my soul will live. “ (19:21) And he said to him, “See, I have accepted you concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the request you have spoken. (19:22) Hurry you, escape there; for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. (19:23) The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

(19:24) Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; (19:25) And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. (19:26) But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. (19:27) And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord: (19:28) And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw, and, look, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

(19:29) And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the place Lot dwelt.

(19:30) And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. (19:31) And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth: (19:32) Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will have sex with him, that we may preserve genes of our father.” (19:33) And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. (19:34) And it came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “See, I lay last night with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go you in, and lie with him, that we may preserve the genes of our father.” (19:35) And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. (19:36) Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. (19:37) And the firstborn bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites to this day. (19:38) And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

Genesis Chapter 20

(20:1) And Abraham journeyed from there toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and visited in Gerar. (20:2) And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister”: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. (20:3) But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, “See, you are but a dead man, for the woman that you have taken; for she is a man's wife.” (20:4) But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, “Lord, will you kill also a righteous nation?” (20:5) Said he not to me, ‘She is my sister?’ and she, even she herself said, ‘He is my brother’: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.” (20:6) And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart; for I also withheld you from sinning against me: therefore suffered I you not to touch her. (20:7) Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live: and if you restore her not, know you that you will surely die, you, and all that are yours.

(20:8) Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were extremely afraid. (20:9) Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? and what have I offended you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? you have done deeds to me that ought not to be done.” (20:10) And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What saw you, that you have done this thing?” (20:11) And Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will kill me for my wife's sake.’ (20:12) And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. (20:13) And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, This is your kindness that you will show to me; at every place where we will come, say of me, He is my brother.” (20:14) And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and male servants, and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife. (20:15) And Abimelech said, “See, my land is before you: dwell where it pleases you.” (20:16) And to Sarah he said, “See, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver: see, he is to you a covering of the eyes, to all that are with you, and with all other: thus she was vindicated.” (20:17) So Abraham prayed to God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants; and they bore children. (20:18) For the Lord had completely closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.