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But before they went to bed, the men of the city, the inhabitants of Sodom, gathered around the house, the young and the old, all of them without exception. They called out to Lot and said, “Where are those men who are staying with you tonight? Make them come out to us so that we can know them!”[a]

Lot went out to them at the door and, after closing the door behind himself,

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 19:5 Homosexuality, which was widespread among the Canaanites, was sternly prohibited by the Mosaic Law (Lev 18:22, 24; 20:13, 23; Jdg 19:22).