OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 10

Genesis 19:10

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But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

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Genesis 19:10 in context

Genesis 19:7–13

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He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.

8

See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”

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They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.

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But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

11

They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

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The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:

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for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before the LORD that the LORD has sent us to destroy it.”

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