Bar’chu et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach
l’O’lam va-ed! Baruch ata YHVH
Eloheinu melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol
ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu eht Torah-to.
Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”
(Bless YHVH the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the
blessed One for all eternity. Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the
Universe, you have selected us from among all the peoples, and have given us
your Torah. Blessed are you, YHVH, giver of the Torah. Ameyn.)
Gen 19:1 And the two messengers came to Seḏom
(Canaanite city meaning ‘’burning’’) in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the
gate of Seḏom. And when Lot saw them, he rose up to meet them, and he bowed
himself with his face toward the ground, Gen 19:2 and he said,
“Look, please my masters, please turn in to your servant’s house and spend the
night, and wash your feet, and rise early and go your way.” And they said, “No,
but let us spend the night in the open square.” Gen 19:3 But he
urged them strongly, and they turned in to him and came into his house. And he
made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. Gen
19:4 Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Seḏom, both old
and young, all the people from every part, surrounded the house.
Gen 19:5
And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you
tonight? Bring them out to us, and let us ‘know’ them.” Gen 19:6 So
Lot went out to them through the doorway, and shut the door behind him, Gen
19:7 and said, “Please, my brothers, do not do evil! Gen 19:8
“Look, please, I have two daughters who have not known a man. Please, let me
bring them out to you, and do to them as you wish, only do no deed to these
men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.” Gen 19:9
But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This one came in to sojourn, and
should he always judge? Now we are going to treat you worse than them.” So they
pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door.Gen
19:10 But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house
with them, and shut the door. Gen 19:11 Then they struck the men who
were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, and they
wearied themselves to find the door. Gen 19:12 And the men said to
Lot, “Have you anyone else here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your
daughters, and whomever you have in the city – bring them out of this
place! Gen 19:13 “For we are going to destroy this place, because
the cry against them has grown great before the face of יהוה, and יהוה has sent us to destroy it.” Gen
19:14 And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his
daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place, for יהוה is going to destroy this city!” But to his
sons-in-law he seemed to be as one joking. Gen 19:15 And when
morning dawned, the messengers urged Lot to hurry, saying, “Get up, take your
wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the
punishment of the city.” Gen 19:16 And while he loitered, the men
took hold of his hand, and his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters,
יהוה
having compassion on him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city. Gen
19:17 And it came to be, when they had brought them outside, that he
said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the
plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed.” Gen 19:18 And
Lot said to them, “Oh no, יהוה!
Gen
19:19 “Look, please, your servant has found favour in your eyes, and you
have increased your loving-commitment which you have shown me by saving my
life, but I am unable to escape to the mountains, lest calamity overtake me and
I die. Gen 19:20 “Look, please, this city is near enough to flee to,
and it is small. Please let me escape there – is it not a small matter – and
let my life be saved?” Gen 19:21 And He said to him, “Look, I have
favoured you concerning this matter also, without overthrowing this city for
which you have spoken. Gen 19:22 “Hurry, escape there. For I am not
able to do any deed until you arrive there.” So the name of the city was called
Tso‛ar. (Heb – insignificant)
YHVH Destroys
Sodom
Gen
19:23 The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Tso‛ar. Gen
19:24 And יהוה
rained sulphur and fire on Seḏom and Amorah, from יהוה out of the heavens. Gen 19:25
So He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the
cities, and what grew on the ground. Gen 19:26 But his wife looked
back from behind him, and she became a post of salt. Gen 19:27 And Aḇraham
arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood
before יהוה, Gen
19:28 and he looked toward Seḏom and Amorah, and toward all the land of
the plain. And he looked and saw the smoke of the land which went up like the
smoke of a furnace. Gen 19:29 Thus it came to be, when Elohim
destroyed the cities of the plain, that Elohim remembered Aḇraham, and sent Lot
out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot
had dwelt.
Lot and His
Daughters
Gen
19:30 And Lot went up out of Tso‛ar and dwelt in the mountains, and his
two daughters were with him, for he was afraid to dwell in Tso‛ar. And he and
his two daughters dwelt in a cave. Gen 19:31 And the first-born said
to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come in
to us, as is the way of all the earth. Gen 19:32 "Come, let us
make our father drink wine and lie with him, so that we preserve the seed of
our father.” Gen 19:33 So they made their father drink wine that
night. And the first-born went in and lay with her father, and he was not aware
of it when she lay down or when she arose. Gen 19:34 And it came to
be on the next day that the first-born said to the younger, “See, I lay with my
father last night. Let us make him drink wine tonight as well, and you go in
and lie with him, so that we keep the seed of our father.” Gen 19:35
So they made their father drink wine that night as well. And the younger arose
and lay with him, and he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she
arose. Gen 19:36 Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by
their father. Gen 19:37 And the first-born bore a son and called his
name Mo’aḇ, he is the father of the Mo’aḇites to this day. Gen 19:38
And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi, he is the
father of the children of Ammon to this day.
In Matthew 24
and Luke 17, Yahshua gave us a clear warning and indication of what this world
would be like near the time of His second coming – he saw the future of this world and it was a mirror
of what it was like back in both Noah's and Lot's day.
