plied that
there was no good man among the Sodomites; for if there were but ten
such man among them, he would not punish any of them for their
sins, Abraham held his peace. And the angels came to the city of the
Sodomites, and Lot entreated them to accept of a lodging with him; for
he was a very generous and hospitable man, and one that had learned to
imitate the goodness of Abraham. Now when the Sodomites saw the young
men to be of beautiful countenances, and this to an extraordinary
degree, and that they took up their lodgings with Lot, they resolved
themselves to enjoy these beautiful boys by force and violence; and when
Lot exhorted them to sobriety, and not to offer any thing immodest to
the strangers, but to have regard to their lodging in his house; and
promised that if their inclinations could not be governed, he would
expose his daughters to their lust, instead of these strangers; neither
thus were they made ashamed.

4. But God was much displeased at their impudent behavior, so that he
both smote those men with blindness, and condemned the Sodomites to
universal destruction. But Lot, upon God's informing him of the future
destruction of the Sodomites, went away, taking with him his wife
and daughters, who were two, and still virgins; for those that were
betrothed [21] to them were above the thoughts of going, and deemed that
Lot's words were trifling. God then cast a thunderbolt upon the city,
and set it on fire, with its inhabitants; and laid waste the country
with the like burning, as I formerly said when I wrote the Jewish War.
[22] But Lot's wife continually turning back to view the city as she
went from it, and being too nicely inquisitive what would become of it,
although God had forbidden her so to do, was changed into a pillar of
salt;[23] for I have seen it, and it remains at this day. Now he and his
daughters fled to a certain small place, encompassed with the fire, and
settled in it: it is to this day called Zoar, for that is the word
which the Hebrews use for a small thing. There it was that he lived a
miserable life, on account of his having no company, and his want of
provisions.

5. But his daughters, thinking that all mankind were destroyed,
approached to their father, [24] though taking care not to be perceived.
This they did, that human kind might not utterly fail: and they bare
sons; the son of the elder was named Moab, Which denotes one derived
from his father; the younger bare Ammon, whi