Yaratiliş 19
1 İki melek akşamleyin Sodom'a vardılar. Lut kentin kapısında oturuyordu. Onları görür görmez karşılamak için ayağa kalktı. Yere kapanarak,
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.
2 “Efendilerim” dedi, “Kulunuzun evine buyurun. Ayaklarınızı yıkayın, geceyi bizde geçirin. Sonra erkenden kalkıp yolunuza devam edersiniz.” Melekler, “Olmaz” dediler, “Geceyi kent meydanında geçireceğiz.”
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.”
3 Ama Lut çok diretti. Sonunda onunla birlikte evine gittiler. Lut onlara yemek hazırladı, mayasız ekmek pişirdi. Yediler.
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.
4 Onlar yatmadan, kentin erkekleri –Sodom'un her mahallesinden genç yaşlı bütün erkekler– evi sardı.
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.
5 Lut'a seslenerek, “Bu gece sana gelen adamlar nerede?” diye sordular, “Getir onları da yatalım.”
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]
6 Lut dışarı çıktı, arkasından kapıyı kapadı.
Lot went outside the house and shut the door behind him, so that they could not go inside.
7 “Kardeşler, lütfen bu kötülüğü yapmayın” dedi,
He said to them, “My friends, don’t do such an evil thing!
8 “Erkek yüzü görmemiş iki kızım var. Size onları getireyim, ne isterseniz yapın. Yeter ki, bu adamlara dokunmayın. Çünkü onlar konuğumdur, çatımın altına geldiler.”
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]!”
9 Adamlar, “Çekil önümüzden!” diye karşılık verdiler, “Adam buraya dışardan geldi, şimdi yargıçlık taslıyor! Sana daha beterini yaparız.” Lut'u ite kaka kapıyı kırmaya davrandılar.
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.
10 Ama içerdeki adamlar uzanıp Lut'u evin içine, yanlarına aldılar ve kapıyı kapadılar.
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.
11 Kapıya dayanan adamları, büyük küçük hepsini kör ettiler. Öyle ki, adamlar kapıyı bulamaz oldu.
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.
12 İçerdeki iki adam Lut'a, “Senin burada başka kimin var?” diye sordular, “Oğullarını, kızlarını, damatlarını, kentte sana ait kim varsa hepsini dışarı çıkar.
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,
13 Çünkü burayı yok edeceğiz. RAB bu halk hakkında birçok kötü suçlama duydu, kenti yok etmek için bizi gönderdi.”
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.”
14 Lut dışarı çıktı ve kızlarıyla evlenecek olan adamlara, “Hemen buradan uzaklaşın!” dedi, “Çünkü RAB bu kenti yok etmek üzere.” Ne var ki damat adayları onun şaka yaptığını sandılar.
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.
15 Tan ağarırken melekler Lut'a, “Karınla iki kızını al, hemen buradan uzaklaş” diye üstelediler, “Yoksa kent cezasını bulurken sen de canından olursun.”
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!”
16 Lut ağır davrandı, ama RAB ona acıdı. Adamlar Lut'la karısının ve iki kızının elinden tutup onları kentin dışına çıkardılar.
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.
17 Kent dışına çıkınca, adamlardan biri Lut'a, “Kaç, canını kurtar, arkana bakma” dedi, “Bu ovanın hiçbir yerinde durma. Dağa kaç, yoksa ölür gidersin.”
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!”
18 Lut, “Aman, efendim!” diye karşılık verdi,
But Lot said to one of the angels, “No, sir, don’t make me do that!
19 “Ben kulunuzdan hoşnut kaldınız, canımı kurtarmakla bana büyük iyilik yaptınız. Ama dağa kaçamam. Çünkü felaket bana yetişir, ölürüm.
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].
20 İşte, şurada kaçabileceğim yakın bir kent var, küçücük bir kent. İzin verin, oraya kaçıp canımı kurtarayım. Zaten küçücük bir kent.”
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.”
21 Adamlardan biri, “Peki, dileğini kabul ediyorum” dedi, “O kenti yıkmayacağım.
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.
22 Çabuk ol, hemen kaç! Çünkü sen oraya varmadan bir şey yapamam.” Bu yüzden o kente Soar adı verildi.
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.
23 Lut Soar'a vardığında güneş doğmuştu.
As the sun was rising, Lot and his family arrived in the town which is now called Zoar.
24 RAB Sodom ve Gomora'nın üzerine gökten ateşli kükürt yağdırdı.
Then Yahweh caused fire and [burning] sulfur to fall down on Sodom and Gomorrah like rain.
25 Bu kentleri, bütün ovayı, oradaki insanların hepsini ve bütün bitkileri yok etti.
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.
26 Ancak Lut'un peşisıra gelen karısı dönüp geriye bakınca tuz kesildi.
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.
27 İbrahim sabah erkenden kalkıp önceki gün RAB'bin huzurunda durduğu yere gitti.
That morning, Abraham got up and went to the place where he had stood in front of Yahweh.
28 Sodom ve Gomora'ya ve bütün ovaya baktı. Yerden, tüten bir ocak gibi duman yükseliyordu.
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.
29 Tanrı ovadaki kentleri yok ederken İbrahim'i anımsamış ve Lut'un yaşadığı kentleri yok ederken Lut'u bu felaketin dışına çıkarmıştı.
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.
30 Lut Soar'da kalmaktan korkuyordu. Bu yüzden iki kızıyla kentten ayrılarak dağa yerleşti, onlarla birlikte bir mağarada yaşamaya başladı.
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.
31 Büyük kızı küçüğüne, “Babamız yaşlı” dedi, “Dünya geleneklerine uygun biçimde burada bizimle yatabilecek bir erkek yok.
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.
32 Gel, babamıza şarap içirelim, soyumuzu yaşatmak için onunla yatalım.”
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.”
33 O gece babalarına şarap içirdiler. Büyük kız gidip babasıyla yattı. Ancak Lut yatıp kalktığının farkında değildi.
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.
34 Ertesi gün büyük kız küçüğüne, “Dün gece babamla yattım” dedi, “Bu gece de ona şarap içirelim. Soyumuzu yaşatmak için sen de onunla yat.”
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.”
35 O gece de babalarına şarap içirdiler ve küçük kız babasıyla yattı. Ama Lut yatıp kalktığının farkında değildi.
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.
36 Böylece Lut'un iki kızı da öz babalarından hamile kaldılar.
So Lot caused his two daughters to become pregnant.
37 Büyük kız bir erkek çocuk doğurdu, ona Moav adını verdi. Moav bugünkü Moavlılar'ın atasıdır.
The older one later gave birth to a son, whom she named Moab. He became the ancestor of the Moab people-group.
38 Küçük kızın da bir oğlu oldu, adını Ben-Ammi koydu. O da bugünkü Ammonlular'ın atasıdır.
The younger one also gave birth to a son, whom she named Ben-Ammi. He became the ancestor of the Ammon people-group.
