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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:1
Two angels came to Sedom at the evening; and Lot sat in the gate of Sedom. And Lot saw, and rose up to meet them from the gate of the tabernacle. And he bowed his face to the ground,
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:2
and said, I beg now, my lords, turn now hither, and enter the house of your servant, and lodge, and wash your feet; and you will arise and proceed on your way. And they said to him, No; for in the street we will lodge.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:3
And he persuaded them earnestly, and they turned aside to be with him; and they entered his house, and he made a repast for them, and prepared unleavened cakes. And it seemed to him as if they did eat.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:4
They had not yet lain down, when the wicked men of the city, the men of Sedom, came round upon the house, from the youth to the old man, all the people throughout.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:5
And they cried to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men who entered with thee tonight? Bring them out to us, and we will lie with them.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:6
And Lot went out to them to the gate, and shut the door after him.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:7
And he said, I pray, my brethren, do not thus wickedly.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:8
Behold, now, I have two daughters who have had no dealing with a man; I would now bring even them out to you to do to them as is meet before you, rather than you should do evil to these men, because they have entered in to lodge under the shadow of my roof.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:9
And they said, Give up this. And they said, Did not this come alone to sojourn among us? and, behold, he is making himself a judge, and judging the whole of us. But now we will do worse to thee than to them. And they prevailed against the man, against Lot, greatly, and came near, to shatter the door.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:10
And the Men stretched forth their hands, and brought Lot unto them in the house, and shut the door.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:11
But the men who were at the gate of the house they struck with a suffusion of the eyes, from the young to the old, and they wearied themselves to find the gate.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:12
And the Men said to Lot, Hast thou yet in this city kinsman or brother? Thy sons-in-law, thy sons and thy daughters, take forth from the place;
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:13
{for we are about to destroy this place,} for the cry of it before the Lord is great, and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:14
And Lot went forth, and spake with his sons-in-law who had taken his daughters, and said, Arise, come forth from this place; for the Lord destroyeth the city. But the word was as a wonder, (and he) as a man ranting, in the eyes of his sons-in-law.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:15
And at the time that the morning was about to uprise, the angels were urgent upon Lot, saying, Up, take thy wife and thy two daughters who are with you, lest you perish in the condemnation of the inhabitants of the city.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:16
But he delayed: and the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, for mercy from the Lord was upon them. And they brought them forth, and set them without the city.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:17
And it was that as they led them without, one of them returned into Sedom, to destroy it; and one remained with Lot, and said to him, Be merciful to your life; look not behind you, and stand not in all the plain; to the mountain escape, or you perish.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:18
And Lot said to him, I beseech of thee endure with me a little hour, until I have prayed for mercy from before the Lord.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:19
Behold, now, thy servant hath found mercy before Thee, and Thou hast multiplied the kindness Thou hast done me in saving my life, and I am not able to escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:20
Behold, now, I pray, this city, it is a near habitation, and convenient (for us) to escape thither; and it is small, and the guilt thereof light. I will flee thither, then. Is it not a little one? and my life shall be preserved.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:21
And He said, Behold, I have accepted thee in this matter also, that I will not overthrow the city for which thou hast spoken, to destroy it, that thou mayest escape to it.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:22
Hasten and flee thither: for I cannot do any thing till thou have entered there. Therefore he called the name of the city Zoar.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:23
The sun had passed the sea, and come forth upon the earth, at the end of three hours, and Lot entered into Zoar.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:24
And the Word of the Lord had caused showers of favour to descend upon Sedom and Amorah, to the intent that they might work repentance, but they did it not: so that they said, Wickedness is not manifest before the Lord. Behold, then, there are now sent down upon them sulphur and fire from before the Word of the Lord from Heaven.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:25
And He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and the herbage of the earth.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:26
And his wife looked after the angel, to know what would be in the end of her father's house, for she was of the daughters of the Sedomaee; and because she sinned by salt (bemilcha) she was manifestly punished; behold, she was made a statue of salt.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:27
And Abraham arose in the morning (and went) to the place where he had ministered in prayer before the Lord.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:28
And he looked towards Sedom and Amorah, and all the land of the plain, and saw, and, behold, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:29
And it was when the Lord destroyed the cities of the plain, that He remembered the righteousness of Abraham, and sent forth Lot from the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities wherein Lot had dwelt.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:30
And Lot went up from Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; because he feared to reside in Zoar. And he dwelt in a cavern, he and his two daughters.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:31
And the elder said to the less, Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to come to us after the way of the whole earth:
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:32
come, let us make our father drink wine, and when he is drunken we will lie with him, and raise up sons from our father.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:33
And they made their father drink wine that night, and he was drunk. And the elder arose, and lay with her father, nor did he know when she lay down, nor when she arose.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:34
And it was the day following, and the elder said to the less, Behold, now, I lay my evening with the father; let us make him drink wine this night also, that he may be drunk; and go thou and lie with him, that we may raise up sons from our father.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:35
And they made their father drink wine that night also, and he was drunk, and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he knew not in her lying down nor in her rising up.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:36
And the two daughters of Lot became with child by their father.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:37
And the elder brought forth a son, and she called his name Moab, because from her father she had conceived. He is the father of the Moabaee unto this day.
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Pseudo-Jonathan, Genesis 19:38
And the younger also brought forth a son, and she called his name Bar-Ammi, because he was the son of her father. He is the father of the Ammonite people unto this day.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Etheridge historical English
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Reading language: eng · Original language (catalog): Ancient source language(s)
Recorded completeness: All five identified Pentateuch book exports; 5816 nonempty supplied verse sections across 187 chapter keys. Empty source slots remain absent, with no reconstructed or merged readings. Historical Etheridge English witness; source version title uses London 1862 for all books, retained unchanged, while the historical translation volumes were published 1862–1865.. Available reading sections are listed below.
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