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daughters which thou hast: least thou also perish withal in the wickednes of the citie. ¹⁶He lingring, they tooke his hand, and the hand of his wife, and of his two daughters, because our Lord spared him. ¹⁷And they led him forth, and set him without the citie; and there they spake to him, saying: Saue thy life; looke not backe, neither stay thou in al the countrie about: but saue thy selfe in the mountaine, lest thou also perish withal. ¹⁸And Lot said to them: I beseech thee my Lord, ¹⁹because thy seruant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercie, which thou hast wrought with me, in that thou wouldest saue my life, and safe I can not be in the mountaine, lest perhaps the euil catch me, and I dye. ²⁰There is this citie here-by at hand, wherunto I may fly, a little one, and I shal be safe in it: is it not a little one, and my life shal be saued? ²¹And he said to him: Behold also in this point I haue heard thy prayers, not to ouerthrow the citie for which thou hast spoken. ²²Make hast, and be saued there: because I can not doe any thing til thou enter in thither. Therfore the name of that citie was called a litle one.* Segor. ²³The sunne was risen vpon the earth, and Lot entred into Segor. ²⁴Therfore our Lord rained vpon Sodome and Gomorre brimstone & fire from our Lord out of heauen: ²⁵and he subuerted these cities, and al the countrie about, al the inhabitants of the cities, and al things that spring of the earth. ²⁶And his wife ^[1] looking behind her, was turned into a statua of salt. ²⁷And Abraham getting vp early in the morning, there where before he had stood with our Lord, ²⁸beheld Sodome and Gomorre, and the whole land of that countrie: and he saw the cinders rise vp from the earth as it were the smoke of a fornace. ²⁹For when God subuerted the citties of that countrie, he ^[2] remembring Abraham, deliuered Lot out of the subuersion of the cities wherein he had dwelt. ³⁰And Lot ascended out of Segor, and abode in the mountaine, his two daughters also with him (for he was afraid to abide in Segor) and he abode in a caue himselfe, and his two daughters with him. ³³And the elder said to the yonger: Our father is old, and there is no man left on the earth, that may companie with vs after the manner of the whole earth. ³²Come, let vs make him drunke with wine, and let vs lie with him, that we may preserue seed of our father. ³³They therfore made their father to drinke wine that night: and the elder went in, and lay with her father: but he perceiued not, neyther when his daughter lay downe, nor when she rose vp. ³⁴The next day also the elder said to the yonger: Behold I lay yesternight with my father, let vs make him drinke wine also this night, and thou shalt lye with him, that we may saue seed of our father. ³⁵They made their father drinke wine that night also, and the yonger daughter went in, and lay with him: and neyther then truly did he perceiue when she lay downe, or when she rose vp. ³⁶The two daughters therfore of Lot were with child by their father. ³⁷And the elder bare a sonne and she called his name Moab:

1. Lots wife turned into salt, admonisheth the seruants of God to proceed in vertue, & not to looke back to vice. Luc. 17. S. Aug. li. 16. c. 30. ciuit.
2. Lot neither perfect nor very wicked was deliuered for Abrahams sake. S. Aug. q. 45. in Gen.