As promised: this is the rather punchy piece that’s been simmering for a few weeks. Some of you out there may love it, some may hate it — if you think I’m right or wrong, tell me so. I’d love some feedback.
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Chapter 19. 1. Two angels arrived at Sodom early in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed low before them.
2. “My lords,” he said, “please come this night to your servant’s house. There you may wash, and spend the night, and then go on your way early in the morning.”
“No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the market square.”
3. But he was in such earnest that they did go with him and came to his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast in his haste, and they ate.
4. Before they had gone to bed, however, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him,
7 and said, “No, my friends. Do not do this evil.
8. Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you may do with them as you please. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof, and I must be hospitable.”
9. The men said, “That is fair,” and Lot sent his daughters out to them. The men raped them and did what they liked with them, and though his daughters cried out to him all through the night, Lot shut his ears and did not listen.
10. In the morning the angels thanked him and went on their way.
11. And the LORD met them as they came up from the city, and asked them, “Well? What have you seen?”
12. And they told him, “Lord, there is no crime in Sodom, for the men there only rape women.”
13. And the LORD said, “Well, that’s all right then, women don’t count. No harm in that.” And thus Sodom was spared. Continue reading
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