Genesis 19
1 The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,
| وَأَقْبَلَ الْمَلاكَانِ عَلَى سَدُومَ عِنْدَ الْمَسَاءِ. وَكَانَ لُوطٌ جَالِساً عِنْدَ بَابِ سَدُومَ، فَمَا إِنْ رَآهُمَا حَتَّى نَهَضَ لاسْتِقْبَالِهِمَا، وَسَجَدَ بِوَجْهِهِ إِلَى الأَرْضِ، | ١ |
2 and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.” They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.”
| وَقَالَ: «يَا سَيِّدَيَّ، انْزِلا فِي بَيْتِ عَبْدِكُمَا لِتَقْضِيَا لَيْلَتَكُمَا، وَاغْسِلا أَرْجُلَكُمَا، وَفِي الصَّبَاحِ الْبَاكِرِ تَمْضِيَانِ فِي طَرِيقِكُمَا». لَكِنَّهُمَا قَالا: «لا، بَلْ نَمْكُثُ اللَّيْلَةَ فِي السَّاحَةِ». | ٢ |
3 He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
| فَأَصَرَّ عَلَيْهِمَا جِدّاً حَتَّى قَبِلا الذَّهَابَ مَعَهُ وَالنُّزُولَ فِي بَيْتِهِ. فَأَعَدَّ لَهُمَا مَأْدُبَةً وَخَبَزَ فَطِيراً فَأَكَلا. | ٣ |
4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
| وَقَبْلَ أَنْ يَرْقُدَا، حَاصَرَ رِجَالُ مَدِينَةِ سَدُومَ مِنْ أَحْدَاثٍ وَشُيُوخٍ، الْبَيْتَ، | ٤ |
5 They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”
| وَنَادُوا لُوطاً: «أَيْنَ الرَّجُلانِ اللَّذَانِ اسْتَضَفْتَهُمَا اللَّيْلَةَ؟ أَخْرِجْهُمَا إِلَيْنَا لِنُضَاجِعَهُمَا». | ٥ |
6 Lot went out to them through the door, and shut the door after himself.
| فَخَرَجَ إِلَيْهِمْ لُوطٌ بَعْدَ أَنْ أَغْلَقَ الْبَابَ خَلْفَهُ، | ٦ |
7 He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.
| وَقَالَ: «لا تَرْتَكِبُوا شَرّاً يَا إِخْوَتِي. | ٧ |
8 See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
| هُوَذَا لِي ابْنَتَانِ عَذْرَاوَانِ أُخْرِجُهُمَا إِلَيْكُمْ فَافْعَلُوا بِهِمَا مَا يَحْلُو لَكُمْ، أَمَّا هَذَانِ الرَّجُلانِ فَلا تُسِيئوا إِلَيْهِمَا لأَنَّهُمَا لَجَآ إِلَى حِمَى مَنْزِلِي». | ٨ |
9 They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.
| فَقَالُوا: «تَنَحَّ بَعِيداً»، وَأَضَافُوا: «لَقَدْ جَاءَ هَذَا الإِنْسَانُ لِيَتَغَرَّبَ بَيْنَنَا، وَهَا هُوَ يَتَحَكَّمُ فِينَا. الآنَ نَفْعَلُ بِكَ شَرّاً أَكْثَرَ مِنْهُمَا». وَتَدَافَعُوا حَوْلَ لُوطٍ وَتَقَدَّمُوا لِيُحَطِّمُوا الْبَابَ. | ٩ |
10 But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
| غَيْرَ أَنَّ الرَّجُلَيْنِ مَدَّا أَيْدِيَهُمَا وَاجْتَذَبَا لُوطاً إِلَى دَاخِلِ الْبَيْتِ، وَأَغْلَقَا الْبَابَ. | ١٠ |
11 They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
| ثُمَّ ضَرَبَا الرِّجَالَ، صَغِيرَهُمْ وَكَبِيرَهُمْ، الْوَاقِفِينَ أَمَامَ بَابِ الْبَيْتِ بِالْعَمَى، فَعَجَزُوا عَنِ الْعُثُورِ عَلَى الْبَابِ. | ١١ |
12 The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:
| وَقَالَ الرَّجُلانِ لِلُوطٍ: «أَلَكَ أَقْرِبَاءُ فِي هَذِهِ الْمَدِينَةِ؟ أَصْهَارٌ وَأَبْنَاءٌ وَبَنَاتٌ أَوْ أَيُّ شَخْصٍ آخَرَ يَمُتُّ إِلَيْكَ بِصِلَةٍ؟ أَخْرِجْهُمْ مِنْ هُنَا، | ١٢ |
13 for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before the LORD that the LORD has sent us to destroy it.”
| لأَنَّنَا عَازِمَانِ عَلَى تَدْمِيرِ هَذَا الْمَكَانِ، إِذْ أَنَّ صُرَاخَ الشَّكْوَى مِنْ شَرِّهِ قَدْ تَعَاظَمَ أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ، فَأَرْسَلَنَا الرَّبُّ لِنُدَمِّرَهُ». | ١٣ |
14 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
| فَمَضَى لُوطٌ وَخَاطَبَ أَصْهَارَهُ أَزْوَاجَ بَنَاتِهِ، قَائِلاً: «هَيَّا. قُومُوا وَاخْرُجُوا مِنْ هَذَا الْمَكَانِ، لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ سَيُدَمِّرُ هَذِهِ الْمَدِينَةَ». فَبَدَا كَمَازِحٍ فِي أَعْيُنِ أَصْهَارِهِ. | ١٤ |
15 When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”
| وَمَا إِنْ أَطَلَّ الْفَجْرُ حَتَّى طَفِقَ الْمَلاكَانِ يَلِحَّانِ عَلَى لُوطٍ قَائِلَيْنِ: «هَيَّا انْهَضْ وَخُذْ زَوْجَتَكَ وَابْنَتَيْكَ اللَّتَيْنِ هُنَا، لِئَلّا تَهْلِكَ بِإِثْمِ الْمَدِينَةِ». | ١٥ |
16 But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, the LORD being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.
| وَإِذْ تَوَانَى لُوطٌ، أَمْسَكَ الرَّجُلانِ بِيَدِهِ وَأَيْدِي زَوْجَتِهِ وَابْنَتَيْهِ وَقَادَاهُمْ إِلَى خَارِجِ الْمَدِينَةِ، لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ أَشْفَقَ عَلَيْهِمْ. | ١٦ |
17 It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”
| وَمَا إِنْ أَخْرَجَاهُمْ بَعِيداً حَتَى قَالَ أَحَدُ الْمَلاكَيْنِ: «اُنْجُ بِحَيَاتِكَ. لَا تَلْتَفِتْ وَرَاءَكَ وَلا تَتَوَقَّفْ فِي كُلِّ مِنْطَقَةِ السَّهْلِ. اهْرُبْ إِلَى الْجَبَلِ لِئَلّا تَهْلِكَ». | ١٧ |
18 Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.
| فَقَالَ لُوطٌ: «لَيْسَ هَكَذَا يَا سَيِّدُ. | ١٨ |
19 See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
| هَا عَبْدُكَ قَدْ حَظِيَ بِرِضَاكَ، وَهَا أَنْتَ قَدْ عَظَّمْتَ لُطْفَكَ إِذْ أَنْقَذْتَ حَيَاتِي، وَأَنَا لَا أَسْتَطِيعُ اللُّجُوءَ إِلَى الْجَبَلِ لِئَلّا يُدْرِكَنِي مَكْرُوهٌ فَأَمُوتَ. | ١٩ |
20 See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live.”
| هَا هِيَ الْمَدِينَةُ قَرِيبَةٌ يَسْهُلُ الْهَرَبُ إِلَيْهَا. إِنَّهَا مَدِينَةٌ صَغِيرَةٌ، فَدَعْنِي أَلْجَأُ إِلَيْهَا. أَلَيْسَتْ هِيَ مَدِينَةً صَغِيرَةً جِدّاً فَأَنْجُوَ فِيهَا بِحَيَاتِي؟» | ٢٠ |
21 He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
| فَقَالَ لَهُ الْمَلاكُ: «إِنِّي قَدْ قَبِلْتُ طِلْبَتَكَ بِشَأْنِ هَذَا الأَمْرِ، وَلَنْ أُدَمِّرَ هَذِهِ الْمَدِينَةَ الَّتِي ذَكَرْتَهَا | ٢١ |
22 Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
| أَسْرِعْ، وَاهْرُبْ إِلَيْهَا، لأَنَّنِي لَا أَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ أَصْنَعَ شَيْئاً إِلَى أَنْ تَبْلُغَهَا». لِذَلِكَ دُعِيَ اسْمُ تِلْكَ الْمَدِينَةِ صُوغَرَ (وَمَعْنَاهَا صَغِيرَةٌ). | ٢٢ |
23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
| وَمَا إِنْ أَشْرَقَتِ الشَّمْسُ عَلَى الأَرْضِ حَتَّى كَانَ لُوطٌ قَدْ دَخَلَ إِلَى صُوغَرَ، | ٢٣ |
24 Then the LORD rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of the sky.
| فَأَمْطَرَ الرَّبُّ عَلَى سَدُومَ وَعَمُورَةَ كِبْرِيتاً وَنَاراً، مِنْ عِنْدِهِ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ. | ٢٤ |
25 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
| وَقَلَبَ تِلْكَ الْمُدُنَ وَالسَّاكِنِينَ فِيهَا، وَالسَّهْلَ الْمُحِيطَ بِها وَكُلَّ مَزْرُوعَاتِ الأَرْضِ. | ٢٥ |
26 But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
| وَتَلَفَّتَتْ زَوْجَةُ لُوطٍ السَّائِرَةُ خَلْفَهُ وَرَاءَهَا، فَتَحَوَّلَتْ إِلَى عَمُودٍ مِنَ الْمِلْحِ. | ٢٦ |
27 Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
| وَمَضَى إِبْرَاهِيمُ مُبَكِّراً فِي الصَّبَاحِ إِلَى الْمَكَانِ الَّذِي وَقَفَ فِيهِ أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ. | ٢٧ |
28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
| وَتَطَلَّعَ نَحْوَ سَدُومَ وَعَمُورَةَ وَلِسَائِرِ أَرْضِ السَّهْلِ، فَأَبْصَرَ الدُّخَانَ يَتَصَاعَدُ مِنْهَا كَالأَتُونِ. | ٢٨ |
29 When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
| وَهَكَذَا عِنْدَمَا دَمَّرَ اللهُ مُدُنَ السَّهْلِ ذَكَرَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، فَأَخْرَجَ لُوطاً قُبَيْلَ وُقُوعِ الْكَارِثَةِ حِينَ قَلَبَ الْمُدُنَ الَّتِي سَكَنَ فِيهَا لُوطٌ. | ٢٩ |
30 Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.
| وَغَادَرَ لُوطٌ وَابْنَتَاهُ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ صُوغَرَ، وَاسْتَقَرُّوا فِي الْجَبَلِ لأَنَّهُ خَافَ أَنْ يَسْكُنَ فِي صُوغَرَ. فَلَجَأَ هُوَ وَابْنَتَاهُ إِلَى كَهْفٍ هُنَاكَ. | ٣٠ |
31 The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.
| فَقَالَتْ الابْنَةُ الْبِكْرُ لأُخْتِهَا الصَّغِيرَةِ: «إِنَّ أَبَانَا قَدْ شَاخَ وَلَيْسَ فِي الأَرْضِ حَوْلَنَا رَجُلٌ يَتَزَوَّجُنَا كَعَادَةِ كُلِّ النَّاسِ. | ٣١ |
32 Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
| فَتَعَالَيْ نَسْقِيهِ خَمْراً وَنَضْطَجِعُ مَعَهُ فَلا تَنْقَطِعُ ذُرِّيَّةُ أَبِينَا». | ٣٢ |
33 They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose.
| فَسَقَتَا فِي تِلْكَ اللَّيْلَةِ أَبَاهُمَا خَمْراً، وَأَقْبَلَتْ الابْنَةُ الْكُبْرَى وَضَاجَعَتْ أَبَاهَا فَلَمْ يَعْلَمْ بِاضْطِجَاعِهَا وَلا بِقِيَامِهَا. | ٣٣ |
34 It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
| وَفِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّانِي قَالَتْ الابْنَةُ الْبِكْرُ لأُخْتِهَا الصَّغِيرَةِ: «إِنِّي قَدِ اضْطَجَعْتُ مَعَ أَبِي لَيْلَةَ أَمْسِ، فَتَعَالَيْ نَسْقِيهِ اللَّيْلَةَ أَيْضاً خَمْراً ثُمَّ ادْخُلِي وَاضْطَجِعِي مَعَهُ فَنُحْيِيَ مِنْ أَبِينَا نَسْلاً». | ٣٤ |
35 They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up.
| فَسَقَتَا أَبَاهُمَا خَمْراً فِي تِلْكَ اللَّيْلَةِ أَيْضاً وَأَقْبَلَتْ الابْنَةُ الصَّغِيرَةُ وَضَاجَعَتْ أَبَاهَا. فَلَمْ يَعْلَمْ بِاضْطِجَاعِهَا وَلا بِقِيَامِهَا. | ٣٥ |
36 Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.
| وَهَكَذَا حَمَلَتْ الابْنَتَانِ كِلْتَاهُمَا مِنْ أَبِيهِمَا. | ٣٦ |
37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.
| فَوَلَدَتِ الْكُبْرَى ابْناً دَعَتْهُ مُوآبَ (وَمَعْنَاهُ مِنَ الأَبِ)، وَهُوَ أَبُو الْمُوآبِيِّينَ إِلَى الْيَوْمِ، | ٣٧ |
38 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.
| أَمَّا الصُّغْرَى فَوَلَدَتِ ابْناً وَدَعَتْهُ «بِنْ عَمِّي» (وَمَعْنَاهُ ابْنُ قَوْمِي) وَهُوَ أَبُو بَنِي عَمُّونَ إِلَى الْيَوْمِ. | ٣٨ |
