Genesis 19
1 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening. Lot happened to be sitting at the entrance to Sodom, and when he saw them he stood up to meet them, and bowed low with his face to 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 “Sirs, please come and stay with me for the night,” he said. “You can wash your feet and then be on your way early in the morning.” They replied, “No, it's fine. We'll spend the night here in the square.”
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 Lot insisted, and they went with him to his house. He made them a meal and baked bread for them to eat.
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 they hadn't even gone to bed before the men of Sodom, young and old, from every part of town, came and surrounded the house.
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 They shouted out to Lot, “Where are the men who came to stay with you tonight? Bring them out here to us so we can have sex 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 Lot went out to talk to them in the doorway, closing the door behind him.
羅特就出來，隨手關上門，到門口見他們，
7 “My friends, please don't do such an evil thing!
說：「我的弟兄們! 請你們切不可作惡。
8 Listen, I've got two virgin daughters. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you want, but please don't do anything to these men. It's my responsibility to look after them.”
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 “Out of our way!” they shouted. “Who do you think you are, coming to live here and now trying to judge us? We'll do even worse things to you than we were going to do to these men!” They rushed forward at Lot and tried to break down 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 But the men inside reached out and grabbed Lot, dragged him inside, and slammed the door shut.
那兩個人卻伸出手來，將羅特拉進屋內，關上了門；
11 Then they made all the men in the doorway, young and old, suddenly go blind so they couldn't find 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 The two men asked Lot, “Is there anyone else here who's part of your family—sons-in-law, or sons or daughters, or anyone else in the town? If there are, make sure they leave,
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 because we are about to destroy this place. The complaints that have reached the Lord about its people have become so bad that he 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 Lot went immediately to speak to the men who were engaged to marry his daughters. “Get up quickly and leave,” he said, “because the Lord is about to destroy the town!” But they thought it was just a joke.
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 At dawn, the angels begged Lot to be quick, telling him, “Hurry up! Leave right now with your wife and your two daughters here, otherwise you'll be wiped out when the city is punished.”
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 Lot hesitated. The men grabbed his hand, and those of his wife and two daughters, and dragged them along, leaving them outside the town. The Lord was kind to them to do this.
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 As soon as they were outside, one of the men said, “Run for your lives! Don't look back, and don't stop anywhere in the valley! Run to the mountains otherwise you'll be destroyed!”
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 “Please sir, not that!” Lot replied.
羅特對他們說：「啊! 不，我主!
19 “If you don't mind, since you have already been so kind to me by saving my life, don't make me run to the mountains—I just can't make it. The destruction will overtake me and I'll 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 Look, there's a town nearby that's close enough to run to, and it's so small. Please let me run there—it's really very small. It would save my life.”
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 “Fine—I'll do as you ask,” he replied. “I won't destroy this town you've mentioned.
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 But hurry up and run there quickly, because I can't do anything until you get there.” (This is why the town was 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 had already risen by the time Lot reached Zoar.
羅特到了左哈爾時，太陽已升出地面；
24 Then the Lord rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky 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 He completely destroyed the towns and all their inhabitants, the whole valley and everything growing there.
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, who was lagging behind, looked back, and she turned into a pillar of salt.
羅特的妻子因回頭觀看，立即變為鹽柱。
27 Abraham got up early the next morning and went back to where he had stood before the Lord.
亞巴郎清晨起來，到了以前他立在上主面前的地方，
28 He looked down at Sodom and Gomorrah and the whole valley floor, and saw the land burning, sending up smoke like from 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 When God destroyed the towns of the valley he didn't forget the promise he made Abraham, and he saved Lot from the destruction of the towns where Lot 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 Lot was afraid to stay in Zoar, so he left town and went to live in a cave in the mountains with 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 Sometime later the older daughter said to the younger one, “Our father is growing old, and there's no men left to give us children like everyone does.
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 on, let's get our father drunk with wine and sleep with him so we can keep his family line going.”
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 So they got their father drunk with wine that night. The older daughter went and slept with him, and he didn't notice when she lay down or when she got up.
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 The next day the older daughter said to the younger one, “Last night I slept with our father. Let's get him drunk with wine again tonight and you can go and sleep with him so we can keep his family line going.”
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 So once again that night they got their father drunk with wine and the younger daughter went and slept with him, and he didn't notice when she lay down or when she got up.
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 This is how both Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father.
這樣，羅特的兩個女兒都由父親懷了孕。
37 The older daughter had a son, and she called him Moab. He is the ancestor of the Moabites of today.
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 The younger daughter had a son too, and she called him Ben-ammi. He is the ancestor of the Ammonites of today.
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。
