A moment in scripture
Genesis 19:8
Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
The surrounding passage
- Genesis 19:6
And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
- Genesis 19:7
And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
- Genesis 19:9
And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
- Genesis 19:10
But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.