Genesis

19 The two angels reach Sod′om for evening, and Lot sitdown for the gate of Sod′om. When Lot see them, e get up go meet them and bow down im head for ground. 2 And e talk say: “Abeg my lord them, abeg, make una come inside the house of una servant and stay with us this night, and make them wash una leg, then una fit get up early morning and go where una de go.” So them talk say: “No, we go sleep for the public place for the city.” 3 But e continue to really beg them sotey them go im house with-am. Then e prepare better food for them and e bake bread wey no get yeast, and them chop.

4 Before them fit lie down to sleep, the men of the city—the men of Sod′om from boy to old man, all of them—gather together surround the house. 5 And them continue to call Lot and de tell-am say: “Where the men wey come your house this night? Bring them come outside for us so that we fit sleep with them.”

6 Then Lot come outside go meet them for the domot, and e close the door as e come outside. 7 E talk say: “Abeg, my brothers, make una no do this kind wicked thing. 8 Abeg, see, I get two daughters wey never sleep with man, abeg make I bring them come outside for una so that una go do them anything wey good for una eye. But make una no do this men anything, because them be visitors for my house wey I must protect.”* 9 With this one them talk say: “Comot for road!” And them still talk say: “See this stranger wey come live for here and e even de try to judge us! Now the thing wey we go do you go worse pass wetin we go do them.” And them gather de push Lot and de go near the door to break-am. 10 So the men* stretch their hand outside and drag Lot enter inside the house with them, and them close the door. 11 But them make the men wey dey for the domot of the house blind, from the one wey small pass go reach the one wey big pass, sotey them tire as them de try to find where the door dey.

12 Then the men tell Lot say: “Any of your person still dey here? Son-in-law them, your sons, your daughters, and all your people for the city, carry them comot from this place! 13 We go destroy this place, because the complain against them don really too much* for Jehovah eyes, sotey Jehovah send us make we destroy the city.” 14 So Lot go outside and start to talk to im son-in-law them wey want marry im daughters, and e continue to tell them say: “Get up! Make una comot from this place because Jehovah go destroy the city!” But im son-in-law them see-am like person wey de joke.

15 As day de break, the angels start to make Lot hurry and de talk say: “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters wey dey here with you, so that God no go destroy you with the city because of their sin!” 16 When e continue to delay, and because Jehovah de really feel for-am, the men hold im hand and the hand of im wife and the hands of im two daughters, and them bring-am come outside and leave-am for outside the city. 17 As them just bring them come outside the city, e talk say: “Run for your life!* Make you no look back and make you no stand for any part of the area! Run go the place where mountains dey so that you no go die!”

18 Then Lot tell them say: “Abeg Jehovah, make e no be that place! 19 Abeg, your servant don do wetin sweet you* and you don really dey kind to me* as you save me,* but I no fit run go the place where mountains dey because I de fear say bad thing fit happen to me and I go die. 20 So abeg, this town near here and I fit run go there, na just small place. Abeg, I fit run go there? Na just small place, then I go survive.”* 21 So e tell-am say: “Okay, I go still dey kind to you, and I no go destroy the town wey you talk about. 22 Hurry! Run go there, because I no go fit do anything until you reach there!” Na because of this one e call the town Zo′ar.*

23 Sun don come out for the land when Lot reach Zo′ar. 24 Then Jehovah make sulfur and fire to fall like rain for Sod′om and Go·mor′rah—e come from Jehovah, from the heavens. 25 So e destroy this cities, yes, the whole area, and all the people wey de live for the cities together with the plants wey de grow for there. 26 But the wife of Lot dey im back. E start to look back, then e turn to pillar of salt.

27 Now Abraham get up for early morning and e go the place where e be stand for front of Jehovah. 28 When e look down face Sod′om and Go·mor′rah and all the land for the area, wetin e see no be small thing. Thick smoke de go up from the land like thick smoke wey de come out from big oven!* 29 When God destroy the cities for the area, God remember Abraham, so e carry Lot comot from the cities wey e destroy, the cities wey Lot be de live for inside.

30 After, Lot comot from Zo′ar with im two daughters and go up, and start to live for the place where mountains dey, because e be de fear to live for Zo′ar. So e start to live for inside cave with im two daughters. 31 And the firstborn tell im junior sister say: “Our papa don old and no man dey for the land to sleep with us as people de do for the whole earth. 32 Come, make we give our papa wine to drink, and make we sleep with-am and get children from our papa.”

33 So that night, them continue to give their papa wine to drink; then the firstborn go inside and sleep with im papa, but im papa no know when e sleep with-am and when e get up. 34 Then the next day, the firstborn tell im junior sister say: “See I don sleep with my papa last night. Make we still give-am wine to drink this night. Then you go go inside and sleep with-am and make we get children from our papa.” 35 So that night too, them continue to give their papa wine to drink. Then the junior one go sleep with-am, but e no know when e sleep with-am and when e get up. 36 So the two daughters of Lot get belle as them sleep with their papa. 37 The firstborn born one boy and call-am Mo′ab. Na im be the papa-papa of Mo′ab people today. 38 The junior one still born boy and e call-am Ben-am′mi. Na im be the papa-papa of Amʹmon people today.