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Genesis 19:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Genesis 19:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 19
Revelation of God the Judge.[a] 1 The two angels arrived in Sodom toward the evening. Lot was seated at the gate to Sodom. As soon as he saw them, Lot got up and went over to them and bowed down to the ground. 2 He said, “My lords, come to the house of your servant. Pass the night, wash your feet, and then, in the morning, you can go on your way.”
They answered, “No, we will spend the night in the town square.”
3 But he insisted so much that they went with him to his house. He prepared a banquet for them, making unleavened bread,[b] and they ate their meal.
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- Genesis 19:1 The story probably reflects memories of fires in naphtha deposits in this region and of earthquakes that caused collapses in the area south of the Dead Sea. It also draws on legends created by the popular imagination that had been struck by the desolate landscape there, with its sulfur-infected air and its odd blocks of salt in the shape of statues.
- Genesis 19:3 Unleavened bread could be prepared more quickly than bread that had to rise.
