³ But he insisted so much that they went with him to his house. He prepared a banquet for them, making unleavened bread,^[a] and they ate their meal. ⁴ But before they went to bed, the men of the city, the inhabitants of Sodom, gathered around the house, the young and the old, all of them without exception. ⁵ They called out to Lot and said, “Where are those men who are staying with you tonight? Make them come out to us so that we can know them!”^[b]