Genesis 19
1 And the two angels came to Sodom at even. And Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed down, the face toward the ground,
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, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and lodge, and wash your feet; and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, No; but we will pass the night in the open place.
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 And he urged them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house. And he made them a repast, and baked unleavened cakes; and they ate.
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 Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, from the youngest to the oldest — all the people from every quarter.
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 they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that have come in to thee to-night? bring them out to us that we may know 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 to the entrance, and shut the door after him,
羅特就出來，隨手關上門，到門口見他們，
7 and said, I pray you, my brethren, do not wickedly!
說：「我的弟兄們! 請你們切不可作惡。
8 Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known a man: let me now bring them out to you; and do to them as is good in your sight: only, to these men do nothing; for therefore have they come under the shadow 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, Back there! And they said [again], This one came to sojourn, and he must be a judge? Now we will deal worse with thee than with them. And they pressed hard on the man — on Lot; and drew near to break the door.
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 And the men stretched out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
那兩個人卻伸出手來，將羅特拉進屋內，關上了門；
11 And they smote the men that were at the entrance of the house with blindness, from the smallest to the greatest; and they wearied themselves to find the entrance.
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 And the men said to Lot, Whom hast thou here besides? a son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and all whom thou hast in the city — bring [them] out of the 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 going to destroy this place, because the cry of them is great before Jehovah, and Jehovah has sent us to destroy it.
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 spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, Up, go out of this place, for Jehovah will destroy the city. But he was as if he jested, in the sight of his sons-in-law.
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 as the dawn arose, the angels urged Lot, saying, Up, take thy wife and thy two daughters who are present, lest thou perish in the iniquity of the city.
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 And as he lingered, the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, Jehovah being merciful to him; and they led him out, and set him without the city.
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 it came to pass when they had brought them outside, that he said, Escape for thy life: look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest thou perish.
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], I pray thee, Lord;
羅特對他們說：「啊! 不，我主!
19 behold now, thy servant has found favour in thine eyes, and thou hast magnified thy goodness, which thou hast shewn to me in preserving my soul alive; but I cannot escape to the mountain, lest calamity lay hold on me, that I die.
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 Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is small: I pray thee, let me escape thither — is it not small? — and my soul shall live.
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 to him, Behold, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken.
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 Haste, escape thither; for I cannot do anything until thou art come there. Therefore the name of the city is called 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 rose upon the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
羅特到了左哈爾時，太陽已升出地面；
24 And Jehovah rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven,
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 overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew upon the ground.
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 And his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
羅特的妻子因回頭觀看，立即變為鹽柱。
27 And Abraham rose early in the morning [and went] to the place where he had stood before Jehovah;
亞巴郎清晨起來，到了以前他立在上主面前的地方，
28 and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and lo, a smoke went up from the land as the smoke of a furnace.
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 And it came to pass when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
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 And Lot went up from Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar. And he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
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 first-born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the land to come in to us after the manner of all the earth:
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 wine to drink, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of 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 they gave their father wine to drink that night. And the first-born went in, and lay with her father, and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising.
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 it came to pass on the next day that the first-born said to the younger, Lo, I lay last night with my father: let us give him wine to drink to-night also, and go thou in, lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of 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 they gave their father wine to drink that night also. And the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising.
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 both the 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 first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same 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, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; the same is the father of 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。
