⁹ The men around the house answered, “Move out of the way!” Then they said to each other, “This man Lot came to our city as a stranger, and now he wants to tell us what to do!” They said to Lot, “We will do worse things to you than to them.” They started pushing him back and were ready to break down the door.

¹⁰ But the two men staying with Lot opened the door, pulled him back inside the house, and then closed the door. ¹¹ They struck those outside the door with blindness, so the men, both young and old, could not find the door.