罗得出来,把门关上,到众人那里,
And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
说,众弟兄,请你们不要作这恶事。
And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
我有两个女儿,还是处女,容我领出来,任凭你们的心愿而行。只是这两个人既然到我舍下,不要向他们作什么。
Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
并且使门外的人,无论老少,眼都昏迷。他们摸来摸去,总寻不着房门。
And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
我们要毁灭这地方。因为城内罪恶的声音在耶和华面前甚大,耶和华差我们来,要毁灭这地方。
For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
罗得就出去,告诉娶了(或作将要娶)他女儿的女婿们说,你们起来离开这地方,因为耶和华要毁灭这城。他女婿们却以为他说的是戏言。
And Lot went out, and spake unto 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 mocked unto his sons in law.
领他们出来以后,就说,逃命吧。不可回头看,也不可在平原站住。要往山上逃跑,免得你被剿灭。
And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
看哪,这座城又小又近,容易逃到,这不是一个小的吗。求你容我逃到那里,我的性命就得存活。
Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
你要速速地逃到那城。因为你还没有到那里,我不能作什么。因此那城名叫琐珥(琐珥就是小的意思)。
Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
亚伯拉罕清早起来,到了他从前删在耶和华面前的地方,
And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: