⁴But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

⁵And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

⁶And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

²⁴Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

²⁵And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

²⁴But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.

¹²But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.

¹⁷There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

²⁴And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

¹²And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

⁴⁶And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.

⁷And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

¹⁴They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

²¹Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.

²²And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.

¹⁴I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.