Genesis 19:7
Hebrew Text— Genesis 19:7He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.
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So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,
Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.
“ ‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.
He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in Yahweh’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way;
The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.
The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing ought not to be done.
With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain wicked fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we can have sex with him!”
I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
She answered him, “No, my brother, do not force me! For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Don’t you do this folly.
There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.
You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.
Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
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.”
Lot went out to them through the door, and shut the door after himself.
Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.
“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.
It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed Yahweh’s covenant, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’ ”
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;
There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,
For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh, “so no man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein.
For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.
but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky and destroyed them all.
He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.
Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,
God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
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.
Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.
The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
“ ‘You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable.
“ ‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves.
Don’t contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.
Then the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza: the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.)
You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.
But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.
There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Joshua said to all the people, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods.
Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him.
The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, “No, my brothers, please don’t act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, don’t do this folly.
Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.
David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue; for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all.”
Then David said, “Do not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.
He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.”
Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.