Genesis 19:7
5 They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”
6 Lot went outside to meet them, shutting the door behind him.
“Please, my brothers,” he pleaded, “don’t do such a wicked thing!
8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do to them as you please. But do not do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
9 “Get out of the way!” they replied. And they declared, “This one came here as a foreigner, and he is already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them.” And they pressed in on Lot and moved in to break down the door.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Please, my brothers,” he pleaded, “don’t do such a wicked thing!
- KJV
- And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
- WEB
- He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.
- ASV
- And he said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly.
- DARBY
- and said, I pray you, my brethren, do not wickedly!
- BLB
- And he said, “Please, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.
- ÅB
- og sa: Mine brødre, gjør da ikke så ond en gjerning!
- OTB
- og sa: "Jeg ber dere, mine brødre, ikke gjør noe så ondt.
- B1930
- og sa: Mine brødre, gjør da ikke så ond en gjerning!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Leviticus 20:13
If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Read in contextRomans 1:24
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
Read in context1 Corinthians 6:9–11
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
Read in contextDeuteronomy 23:17
No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
Read in contextJude 1:7
In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
Read in contextJudges 19:23
The owner of the house went out and said to them, “No, my brothers, do not do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Do not commit this outrage.
Read in context1 Samuel 30:23–24
But David said, “My brothers, you must not do this with what the LORD has given us. He has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiders who came against us.
Read in contextActs 17:26
From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
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