13 for we are about to destroy this place because the outcry against its people is so great before the Lord, that the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”(A)

14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were going to marry[a] his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city!”(B) But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

15 At daybreak the angels urged Lot on: “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment[b] of the city.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 19:14 Lit take
  2. Genesis 19:15 Or iniquity, or guilt

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