¹And the two angels came to Sodom at even. And Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed down, the face toward the ground,

¹Zvino vatumwa vaviri vakasvika So­dhomua madekwanai. Uye Roti wakangae agere pasuwo reSodhoma. Roti ndokuvaona, ndokusimuka kunovachingamidza, akakotamira pasi nechiso chake;

²and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and lodge, and wash your feet; and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, No; but we will pass the night in the open place.

²ndokuti: Tarirai zvino, madzishe angu, chitsaukirai henyu mumba memuranda wenyu, mu­gare usiku, uye mushambe tsoka dzenyu, mugofumira moenda rwendo rwenyu. Zvino vakati: Kwete asi tichagara panzira usiku hwose.

³And he urged them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house. And he made them a repast, and baked unleavened cakes; and they ate.

³Zvino wakavagombedzera zvikuru kusvikira vatendeukira kwaari ndokupinda mimba make; iye ndokuvaitira mabiko, ndokuvabikira chingwa chisina mbiriso, ndokubva va­dya.

⁴Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, from the youngest to the oldest -- all the people from every quarter.

⁴Zvino vasati vavata, varume veguta, varume veSodhoma, vakako­mba imba, kubva kumuduku kusvikira kumukuru, vanhu vose vachibva kumugumo.

⁵And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that have come in to thee to-night? bring them out to us that we may know them.

⁵Zvino vakadana Roti ndokuti kwaari: Varipi varume vasvika kwauri usiku huno? Vabudisire kwatiri kuti tiva­zive.

⁶And Lot went out to them to the entrance, and shut the door after him,

⁶Roti ndokubudira kwavari kumusuwo, ndokuvhara musuwo shure kwake.

⁷and said, I pray you, my brethren, do not wickedly!

⁷Ndokuti: Ndinokukumbirai, hama dzangu, musaita zvakaipa.

⁸Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known a man: let me now bring them out to you; and do to them as is good in your sight: only, to these men do nothing; for therefore have they come under the shadow of my roof.

⁸Tarirai zvino, ndine vakunda vaviri vasina kumboziva murume, ndinokumbirisa, regai ndivabudisire kwamuri, mugoita kwavari sezvakanakira meso enyu; asi kuvarume ava, musaita chinhu, nekuti ndizvo zvava­kapindira mumumvuri wedenga reimba rangu.

⁹And they said, Back there! And they said [again], This one came to sojourn, and he must be a judge? Now we will deal worse with thee than with them. And they pressed hard on the man -- on Lot; and drew near to break the door.

⁹Asi vakati: Suduruka! Vakatizve: Uyu woga wakauya kuva mweni, zvino unoda kuva mutongi here? Ikozvino tichaita zvakaipa kwauri kupfuura ivo. Vakamanikidza zvikuru murume Roti, vakaswedera kuputsa gonhi.

¹⁰And the men stretched out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

¹⁰Asi va­rume vakatambanudza maoko avo, vaka­kwevera Roti mumba mavari, ndokupfiga gonhi.

¹¹And they smote the men that were at the entrance of the house with blindness, from the smallest to the greatest; and they wearied themselves to find the entrance.

¹¹Ndokurova varume vaiva pamusuwo weimba neupofu, kubva kumuduku kusvikira kumukuru, vakaneta nekutsvaka musuwo.

¹²And the men said to Lot, Whom hast thou here besides? a son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and all whom thou hast in the city -- bring [them] out of the place.

¹²Va­rume ndokuti kuna Roti: Uchine vana ani pano? Mukwasha, nevanakomana vako, nevakunda vako, newose waunaye muguta, mubudise panzvimbo ino.

¹³For we are going to destroy this place, because the cry of them is great before Jehovah, and Jehovah has sent us to destroy it.

¹³Nekuti tichaparadza nzvimbo ino, nekuti kuchema kwavo kukuru pamberi pechiso chaJehovha; zvino Jehovha watituma kuiparadza.

¹⁴And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, Up, go out of this place, for Jehovah will destroy the city. But he was as if he jested, in the sight of his sons-in-law.

¹⁴Zvino Roti wakabuda, ndokutaura nevakwasha vake, vaizo­wana vakunda vake, ndokuti: Simukai mubude munzvimbo ino; nekuti Jehovha uchaparadza guta. Asi vakaita seunoita musara pameso evakwasha vake.

¹⁵And as the dawn arose, the angels urged Lot, saying, Up, take thy wife and thy two daughters who are present, lest thou perish in the iniquity of the city.

¹⁵Zvino utonga huchitsvuka, vatumwa va­kakurumidzisa Roti vachiti: Simuka, tota mukadzi wako nevakunda vako vaviri vari pano, zvimwe ungaparadzwa mukurangwa kweguta.

¹⁶And as he lingered, the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, Jehovah being merciful to him; and they led him out, and set him without the city.

¹⁶Asi achiri kunonoka, varume vakabata ruoko rwake, neruoko rwemukadzi wake, neruoko rwevakunda vake vaviri; Jehovha achimuitira tsitsi; ndokumubudisa, vakamuisa kunze kweguta.

¹⁷And it came to pass when they had brought them outside, that he said, Escape for thy life: look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest thou perish.

¹⁷Zvino zvakaitika vavabu­disa kunze, kuti wakati: Tiza nekuda kweupenyu hwako, usacheuka shure kwako, kana kumira pabani rose, tizira kugomo, zvimwe ungaparadzwa.

¹⁸And Lot said to them, Not [so], I pray thee, Lord;

¹⁸Roti ndokuti kwavari: Zvisadaro Ishe wangu.

¹⁹behold now, thy servant has found favour in thine eyes, and thou hast magnified thy goodness, which thou hast shewn to me in preserving my soul alive; but I cannot escape to the mountain, lest calamity lay hold on me, that I die.

¹⁹Tarirai zvino, muranda wenyu wakawana nyasha pameso enyu, uye ma­kurisa tsitsi dzenyu dzamaira kwandiri, pakuponesa upenyu hwangu; asi handigoni kutizira kugomo, zvimwe zvakaipa zvingandinamatira ndikafa.

²⁰Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is small: I pray thee, let me escape thither -- is it not small? -- and my soul shall live.

²⁰Tarirai zvino, guta iri riri pedo kutizira kwariri; uye iduku. ndinokumbira nditizire kwariri (harizi duku here?) Mweya wangu ugorarama.

²¹And he said to him, Behold, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken.

²¹Zvino wakati kwaari: Tarira, ndagamuchira chiso chako pachinhu ichi, kuti ndisaparadza guta iri rawareva.

²²Haste, escape thither; for I cannot do anything until thou art come there. Therefore the name of the city is called Zoar.

²²Kurumi­dza, tizirako, nekuti handigoni kuita chinhu kusvikira wasvikapo. Naizvozvo zita reguta rakanzi Zoari.

²³The sun rose upon the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

²³Zuva rakange rabuda panyika Roti paakasvika paZoari.

²⁴And Jehovah rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven,

²⁴Zvino Jehovha wakanaisa pamusoro peSodhoma nepamusoro peGomora sarufa nemoto, zvichibva kunaJehovha kumatenga.

²⁵and overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew upon the ground.

²⁵Zvino wakaparadza maguta iwawo, nebani rose, nevagari vose vemaguta, nezvaitunga pavhu.

²⁶And his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

²⁶Asi mukadzi wake wakacheuka ari shure kwake, akava mbiru yemunyu.

²⁷And Abraham rose early in the morning [and went] to the place where he had stood before Jehovah;

²⁷Zvino Abhurahamu wakafumira kunzvimbo kwaakamira pamberi paJehovha.

²⁸and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and lo, a smoke went up from the land as the smoke of a furnace.

²⁸Zvino wakatarira kurutivi rweSodhoma neGomora neku­nyika yose yebani, akaona, zvino tarira, utsi hwenyika iyo huchikwira seutsi hwechoto.

²⁹And it came to pass when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

²⁹Zvino zvakaitika Mwari paakaparadza maguta ebani, kuti Mwari wakarangarira Abhurahamu, akabudisa Roti pakati pekuparadzwa ikoko, nguva yaakaparadza maguta makanga muchigara Roti.

³⁰And Lot went up from Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar. And he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

³⁰Zvino Roti wakakwira achibuda muZoari, akagara mugomo, nevaku­nda vake vaviri pamwe naye; nekuti wakatya kugara muZoari; ndokugara, mubako, iye nevakunda vake vaviri.

³¹And the first-born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the land to come in to us after the manner of all the earth:

³¹Zvino dangwe rakati kumuduku: Baba vedu vakwegura, uye hakuna murume panyika ino ungapinda kwatiri, nemutowo wenyika yose.

³²come, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father.

³²Uya timwise baba vedu waini, tigovata navo kuti tichengete mbeu kubva kuna baba vedu.

³³And they gave their father wine to drink that night. And the first-born went in, and lay with her father, and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising.

³³Vakamwisa baba vavo waini usiku ihwohwo, dangwe ndokupinda ndoku­vata nababa vake; asi havana kuziva pakuvata kwake pasi kana pakumuka kwake.

³⁴And it came to pass on the next day that the first-born said to the younger, Lo, I lay last night with my father: let us give him wine to drink to-night also, and go thou in, lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father.

³⁴Zvino zvakaitika chifume kuti dangwe rakati kumuduku: Tarira, ndakavata nababa va­ngu usiku hwapfuura; ngativamwise waini usiku hunowo, ugopinda, vata navo kuti tichengete mbeu kubva kuna baba vedu.

³⁵And they gave their father wine to drink that night also. And the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising.

³⁵Vakamwisa baba vavo waini usiku ihwohwowo, muduku akasimuka, ndokuvata navo, asi havana ku­ziva pakuvata kwake pasi kana pakumuka kwake.

³⁶And both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.

³⁶Naizvozvo vakunda vaRoti va­viri vakava nemimba kuna baba vavo.

³⁷And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites to this day.

³⁷Zvino dangwe rakabereka mwanakomana, akatumidza zita rake kuti Moabhu, ndiye baba vevaMoabhu ku­svikira zuva rino.

³⁸And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; the same is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

³⁸Nemuduku wakaberekawo mwanakomana, akatumi­dza zita rake kuti Bheniami; ndivo baba vevana vaAmoni kusvikira zuva rino.