Genesis 19
1 And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth.
黃昏時，那兩位使者來到了索多瑪，羅特正坐在索多瑪城門口，他一看見他們，就起身前去迎接，俯伏在地，
2 And he said, My masters, come now into your servant's house and take your rest there for the night, and let your feet be washed; and early in the morning you may go on your way. And they said, Not so, but we will take our night's rest in the street.
說：「請二位先生下到你們僕人家中住一夜，洗洗你們的腳；明天早起，再趕你們的路。」他們答說：「不，我們願在街上過宿。」
3 But he made his request more strongly, so they went with him into his house; and he got food ready for them, and made unleavened bread, of which they took.
但因羅特極力邀請，他們才轉身跟著進了他的家。羅特為他們備辦了宴席，烤了無酵餅；他們就吃了。
4 But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town;
他們尚未就寢，閤城的人即索多瑪男人，不論年輕年老的，沒有例外，全都來圍住他的家，
5 And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them.
向羅特喊說：「今晚來到你這裏的那兩個男人在那裏﹖給我們領出來，叫我們好認識他們。」
6 And Lot went out to them in the doorway, shutting the door after him.
羅特就出來，隨手關上門，到門口見他們，
7 And he said, My brothers, do not this evil.
說：「我的弟兄們! 請你們切不可作惡。
8 See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof.
看，我有兩個女兒，尚未認識過男人，容我領出她們來，任憑你們對待她們；只是這兩個男人，既然來到舍下，請你們不要對他們行事。」
9 And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in.
他們反說：「滾開! 」繼而說：「來這裏的這個外方人，居然做起判官來! 現在我們待你比他們還要厲害。」他們遂用力向羅特衝去，一齊向前要打破那門。
10 But the men put out their hands and took Lot into the house to them, shutting the door again.
那兩個人卻伸出手來，將羅特拉進屋內，關上了門；
11 But the men who were outside the door they made blind, all of them, small and great, so that they were tired out with looking for the door.
又使那些在屋門口的男人，無論大小都迷了眼，找不著門口。
12 Then the men said to Lot, Are there any others of your family here? sons-in-law or sons or daughters, take them all out of this place;
那兩個人對羅特說：「你這裏還有什麼人﹖帶你的女婿、兒女，以及城中你所有的人，離開這地方，
13 For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town.
因為我們要毀滅這地方；由於在上主面前控告他們的聲音實在大，所以上主派遣我們來毀滅這地方。」
14 And Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters, Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send destruction on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously.
羅特遂出去，告訴要娶他女兒的兩個女婿說：「起來，離開這地方，因為上主要毀滅這城! 」但他的兩個女婿卻以為他在開玩笑。
15 And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town.
天一亮，兩位使者就催促羅特說：「起來，快領你的妻子和你這裏的兩個女兒逃走，免得你因這城的罪惡同遭滅亡。」
16 But while he was waiting, the men took him and his wife and his daughters by the hand, for the Lord had mercy on them, and put them outside the town.
羅特仍遲延不走；但因為上主憐恤他，那兩個人就拉著他的手，他妻子的和他兩個女兒的手領出城外。
17 And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.
二人領他們到城外，其中一個說：「快快逃命，不要往後看，也不要在平原任何地方站住；該逃往山中，免得同遭滅亡。」
18 And Lot said to them, Not so, O my Lord;
羅特對他們說：「啊! 不，我主!
19 See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death;
你僕人既蒙你垂愛，又蒙你大顯仁慈，得以保全我的性命；但是現在我不能逃往山中，怕遇見災禍死去。
20 This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there (is it not a little one?) so that my life may be safe.
看這座城很近，容我逃往那裏，那只是一座小城；請容我逃往那裏；那不只是一座小城嗎﹖在那裏我可保全性命。」
21 And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town.
其中一個對他說：「好罷! 連在這事上我也顧全你的臉面，我必不消滅你提及的這座城。
22 Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar.
你趕快逃往那裏，因為你不到那裏，我不能行事。」為此那城稱為左哈爾。
23 The sun was up when Lot came to Zoar.
羅特到了左哈爾時，太陽已升出地面；
24 Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.
上主遂使硫磺和火，從天上上主那裏，降於索多瑪和哈摩辣，
25 And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land.
毀滅了這幾座城市和整個平原，以及城中所有的居民和地上的草木。
26 But Lot's wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt.
羅特的妻子因回頭觀看，立即變為鹽柱。
27 And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord:
亞巴郎清晨起來，到了以前他立在上主面前的地方，
28 And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven.
向索多瑪和哈摩辣，以及整個平原一帶眺望，看見那地煙火上騰，也如燒窯一般。
29 So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.
當天主毀滅平原諸城，消滅羅特所住的城市時，想起了亞巴郎，由滅亡中救了羅特。
30 Then Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and was living there with his two daughters, for fear kept him from living in Zoar: and he and his daughters made their living-place in a hole in the rock.
羅特因為怕住在左哈爾，便與他的兩個女兒離開左哈爾，上了山住在那裏；他和兩個女兒同住在一個山洞裏。
31 And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way:
長女對幼女說：「我們的父親已經老了，地上又沒有男人依照世界上的禮俗來與我們親近。
32 Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father,
來讓我們用酒將父親灌醉，與他同睡：這樣我們可由父親傳生後代﹖」
33 And that night they made their father take much wine; and the older daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.
那天夜裏，她們就用酒將父親灌醉；長女遂進去與父親同睡；女兒幾時臥下，幾時起來，他都不知道。
34 And on the day after, the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I was with my father; let us make him take much wine this night again, and do you go to him, so that we may have offspring by our father.
第二天，長女對幼女說：「看，昨夜我與父親同睡了，今夜我們再用酒灌醉他，你好進去與他同睡，由我們的父親傳生後代。」
35 And that night again they made their father take much wine; and the younger daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.
那天夜裏，她們又用酒將父親灌醉，幼女遂進去與他同睡；女兒幾時臥下，幾時起來，他都不知道。
36 And so the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
這樣，羅特的兩個女兒都由父親懷了孕。
37 And the older daughter had a son, and she gave him the name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites to this day.
長女生了一個兒子，給他起名叫摩阿布，是現今摩阿人的始祖。
38 And the younger had a son and gave him the name Ben-ammi: from him come the children of Ammon to this day.
幼女也生了一個兒子，給他起名叫本阿米，是現今阿孟子民的始祖。
