Genesis 19
1 That evening, the two angels arrived in Sodom. Lot was sitting at the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to greet them, and prostrated himself with his face on the ground.
Llegaron los dos ángeles a Sodoma por la tarde cuando Lot estaba sentado en la puerta de Sodoma. Al verlos se levantó Lot a salirles al encuentro; y postrándose rostro en tierra,
2 He said to them, “Gentlemen, please stay in my house tonight. You can wash your feet, and tomorrow you can continue your journey.” But they said, “No, we will just sleep in the city square.”
dijo: “Mirad, señores míos, os ruego que os dirijáis hacia la casa de vuestro siervo, para pernoctar y lavaros los pies, y de madrugada os levantaréis para seguir vuestro camino.” Mas ellos dijeron: “No, pues pasaremos la noche en la plaza.”
3 But Lot kept insisting strongly that they sleep in his house. So they entered his house with him, and he prepared a meal for them. He baked some bread without yeast, and they ate it.
Pero les instó de tal manera que se encaminaron y fueron a su casa, donde les preparó un banquete y coció panes ácimos; y comieron.
4 After they finished eating, before they went to bed, the men of Sodom [city], all of them, from the young ones to the old ones, surrounded the house.
Mas antes que fueran a acostarse, los hombres de la ciudad, los sodomitas, que habían cercado la casa, todo el pueblo junto, desde los jóvenes hasta los viejos,
5 They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to your house this evening? Bring them out, so that we can have sex with them!” [EUP]
llamaron a Lot y le dijeron: “¿Dónde están los varones que han venido a ti esta noche? Sácanoslos para que los conozcamos.”
6 Lot went outside the house and shut the door behind him, so that they could not go inside.
Lot salió a la entrada donde ellos estaban, y cerrando tras sí la puerta,
7 He said to them, “My friends, don’t do such an evil thing!
dijo: “Os ruego, hermanos míos, no hagáis esta maldad.
8 Listen to me. I have two daughters who have never had sex with any man. Let me bring them out to you now, and you can do with them whatever pleases you. But don’t do anything to these men, because they are guests in my house, [so I must protect them]!”
Mirad, tengo aquí dos hijas que aún no han conocido varón. Os las sacaré fuera; haced con ellas como bien os parezca, pero no hagáis nada a estos varones; pues para eso se han acogido a la sombra de mi techo.”
9 But they replied, “Get out of our way! You are a foreigner; so you have no right to tell us what is right! [If you don’t get out of our way], we will do worse things to you than we will do to them!” Then they lunged towards Lot, and tried forcefully to break down the door.
Mas ellos respondieron: “¡Quítate allá!” Y añadieron: “¡Este individuo que vino como extranjero, quiere hacerse juez! Ahora te trataremos a ti peor que a ellos.” Y arrojándose sobre el hombre, sobre Lot, con gran violencia se acercaron a forzar la puerta.
10 But the two angels opened the door carefully, reached out their hands, and pulled Lot to them inside the house. Then they quickly shut the door.
Entonces los (dos) varones alargaron la mano y metieron a Lot dentro de la casa donde estaban, y cerraron la puerta.
11 Then they caused all the men who were outside the door of the house, young and old, to become blind, so that they could not find the door.
Y a los hombres que estaban a la puerta de la casa los hirieron con ceguera, desde el menor hasta el mayor, de modo que se fatigaron (inútilmente) por hallar la puerta.
12 Then the two angels said to Lot, “Who else is with you here? If you have sons or sons-in-law or daughters or anyone else in the city who is related to you, take them out of the city,
Luego dijeron los varones a Lot: “¿Tienes aquí todavía alguno? Sácalos a todos de aquí: los yernos, tus hijos y tus hijas, y todo cuanto tengas en la ciudad.
13 because we are the ones who are going to destroy this place. Yahweh considers that these people are so evil that he sent us to destroy the city.”
Pues vamos a destruir este lugar, porque se ha hecho grande su clamor delante de Yahvé, y Yahvé nos ha enviado a exterminarla.”
14 So Lot went and spoke to the men who had pledged to marry his daughters. He said to them, “Hurry! Get out of this city, because Yahweh is about to destroy it!” But his future sons-in-law thought he was joking.
Salió, pues, Lot y habló con sus yernos, desposados con sus hijas, diciendo: “Levantaos, salid de este lugar; porque Yahvé va a destruir la ciudad.” Mas era a los ojos de sus yernos como quien se burlaba.
15 As it was about to dawn the next morning, the two angels urged Lot, saying, “Get up quickly! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here with you and leave! If you don’t, you will die when [we destroy/Yahweh destroys] the city!”
Al rayar el alba, los ángeles apremiaron a Lot, diciendo: “Levántate, toma a tu mujer y a tus dos hijas que se hallan (contigo), no sea que perezcas por la maldad de la ciudad.”
16 When Lot hesitated, the angels grasped his hand and his wife’s hand and the hands of his two daughters. They led them outside the city safely. The angels did that because Yahweh was acting mercifully toward them.
Y como él tardase, los varones lo asieron de la mano, y, por compasión de Yahvé hacia él, también a su mujer y a sus dos hijas. Lo sacaron, pues, y lo pusieron fuera de la ciudad.
17 When they were outside the city, one of the angels said, “[If you want to remain alive], run away quickly! Don’t look back! And don’t stop anywhere in the valley! Flee to the hills! If you don’t, you will die!”
Y mientras los sacaban fuera, dijo uno: “Ponte a salvo, por tu vida. No mires atrás, ni te pares en ningún lugar de la Vega. Huye a la montaña, no sea que perezcas.”
18 But Lot said to one of the angels, “No, sir, don’t make me do that!
Pero Lot les dijo: “No, por favor, Señor mío.
19 Please, listen. You have been pleased with me and have been very kind to me and spared my life. But I cannot flee to the mountain. If I try to do that, I will die in this disaster [PRS].
Veo que tu siervo ha hallado gracia a tus ojos, y le has mostrado tan grande misericordia salvándome la vida; mas no puedo escapar a la montaña, sin riesgo de que me alcance la destrucción y la muerte.
20 But listen to me. There is a town nearby. Let me run to that small town. Let me go there now. It is a small town, but our lives will be saved if we go there.”
He ahí cerca esa ciudad donde podría refugiarme. Es tan pequeña. Con tu permiso huiré a ella —¿no es ella tan pequeña?— y vivirá mi alma.”
21 One of the angels said to Lot, “I will allow you to do what you have requested [MTY]. I will not destroy the little town you are speaking about.
Contestole: “Bien, te concedo también esta gracia de no destruir la ciudad de la cual hablas.
22 But hurry! Run there, because I cannot destroy anything until you arrive there.” People later called the name of the town Zoar [which means ‘small’, ] because Lot said it was small.
Date prisa, refúgiate allá; pues nada podré hacer hasta que hayas entrado en ella.” Por eso fue llamada aquella ciudad Segor.
23 As the sun was rising, Lot and his family arrived in the town which is now called Zoar.
Salía el sol sobre la tierra cuando Lot entraba en Segor.
24 Then Yahweh caused fire and [burning] sulfur to fall down on Sodom and Gomorrah like rain.
Entonces Yahvé hizo llover sobre Sodoma y sobre Gomorra azufre y fuego que venía de Yahvé, desde el cielo.
25 In that way, he destroyed those cities and all the people who were living in those cities. He also destroyed everything in the valley, including all the plants/vegetation.
Y destruyó aquellas ciudades y toda la Vega, con todos los habitantes de las ciudades, hasta las plantas del suelo.
26 But Lot’s wife stopped and looked back [to see what was happening], so she died, and her body [later] became a pillar of salt.
Mas la mujer de (Lot) miró atrás y se convirtió en estatua de sal.
27 That morning, Abraham got up and went to the place where he had stood in front of Yahweh.
Levantose Abrahán muy de mañana y se fue al lugar donde había estado en pie delante de Yahvé.
28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and he [was surprised to] see that all over the valley, smoke was rising, like the smoke of a huge furnace.
Miró hacia Sodoma y Gomorra, y hacia toda la región de la Vega, y vio que de aquella tierra subía humo, como humo de un horno.
29 So, when God destroyed those cities in the valley, he remembered what he had promised Abraham, and he rescued Lot from the disaster that occurred in the cities where Lot had lived.
Así, pues, cuando Dios destruyó las ciudades de la Vega, se acordó de Abrahán y sacó a Lot de en medio de la ruina, al asolar las ciudades donde Lot habitaba.
30 Lot was afraid to stay in Zoar, so he left there and moved with his two daughters to the mountain, and they lived in a cave.
Subió Lot de Segor y habitó con sus hijas en la montaña, porque tuvo miedo de quedarse en Segor. Se estableció, por eso, en una cueva, él y sus dos hijas.
31 One day the older daughter said to (the younger daughter/her sister), “Our father is old, and there is no man in this area who can have sex [EUP] with us, as people all over the earth do.
Y dijo la mayor a la menor: “Nuestro padre es viejo y no hay en el país hombre que se llegue a nosotras, como es costumbre en toda la tierra.
32 Let’s make our father drink wine until he gets drunk. Then we can have sex with him [EUP] [without him knowing it]. In that way [he will cause us to become pregnant] and we can bear children.”
Vayamos a embriagar a nuestro padre con vino, y nos acostaremos con él, a fin de conseguir de nuestro padre descendencia.”
33 So that night they caused their father to become drunk. And the older daughter went in and lay in bed with her father, and he had sex with her, but he was so drunk that he did not know when she lay down with him or when she got up.
Embriagaron, pues, con vino a su padre esa misma noche, y entró la mayor y se acostó con su padre, sin que él se diera cuenta de ello, ni cuando ella se acostó ni cuando se levantó.
34 The next day, his older daughter said to (his younger daughter/her sister), “Listen to me. Last night I slept with our father. Let’s cause him to become drunk again tonight! This time you can go and sleep with him. If he has sex with you, you can become pregnant, and that way you can have a child, too.”
Al día siguiente dijo la mayor a la menor: “Mira, yo me acosté anoche con mi padre; démosle a beber vino también esta noche, y entra tú para acostarte con él, de modo que de nuestro padre consigamos descendencia.”
35 So that night, they caused their father to become drunk with wine again, and then his younger daughter went and slept with him. But again, he was so drunk that he did not know when she lay down with him or when she got up.
Embriagaron, pues, con vino, también aquella noche a su padre y fue la menor a acostarse con él, sin que él se diera cuenta de ello, ni cuando ella se acostó, ni cuando se levantó.
36 So Lot caused his two daughters to become pregnant.
Y sucedió que las dos hijas de Lot concibieron de su padre.
37 The older one later gave birth to a son, whom she named Moab. He became the ancestor of the Moab people-group.
La mayor dio a luz un hijo, a quien llamó Moab. Es el padre de los moabitas hasta hoy.
38 The younger one also gave birth to a son, whom she named Ben-Ammi. He became the ancestor of the Ammon people-group.
También la menor dio a luz un hijo, el cual llamó Ben-ammi. Es el padre de los ammonitas hasta hoy.
