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When Abraham heard this, he was grieved for the Sodomites; and he
rose up, and besought God for them, and entreated him that he would not
destroy the righteous with the wicked. And when God had replied 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.
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