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Abraham. daughters which thou hast: least thou also perish withal in the wickednes of the citie. He lingring, they tooke his hand, and the hand of his wife, and of his two daughters, because our Lord spared him. And they led him forth, and set him without the citie; and there they spake to him, saying: Saue thy life; looke not backe, neither stay thou in al the countrie about: but saue thy selfe in the mountaine, lest thou also perish withal. And Lot said to them: I beseech thee my Lord, because thy seruant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercie, which thou hast wrought with me, in that thou wouldest saue my life, and safe I can not be in the mountaine, lest perhaps the euil catch me, and I dye. There is this citie here-by at hand, wherunto I may fly, a little one, and I shal be safe in it: is it not a little one, and my life shal be saued? And he said to him: Behold also in this point I haue heard thy prayers, not to ouerthrow the citie for which thou hast spoken. Make hast, and be saued there: because I can not doe any thing til thou enter in thither. Therfore the name of that citie was called * Segor. The sunne was risen vpon the earth, and Lot entred into Segor. Therfore our Lord rained vpon Sodome and Gomorre brimstone & fire from our Lord out of heauen: and he subuerted these cities, and al the countrie about, al the inhabitants of the cities, and al things that spring of the earth. And his wife looking behind her, was turned into a statua of salt. And Abraham getting vp early in the morning, there where before he had stood with our Lord, beheld Sodome and Gomorre, and the whole land of that countrie: and he saw the cinders rise vp from the earth as it were the smoke of a fornace. For when God subuerted the citties of that countrie, he remembring Abraham, deliuered Lot out of the subuersion of the cities wherein he had dwelt. And Lot ascended out of Segor, and abode in the mountaine, his two daughters also with him (for he was afraid to abide in Segor) and he abode in a caue himselfe, and his two daughters with him. And the elder said to the yonger: Our father is old, and there is no man left on the earth, that may companie with vs after the manner of the whole earth. Come, let vs make him drunke with wine, and let vs lie with him, that we may preserue seed of our father. They therfore made their father to drinke wine that night: and the elder went in, and lay with her father: but he perceiued not, neyther when his daughter lay downe, nor when she rose vp. The next day also the elder said to the yonger: Behold I lay yesternight with my father, let vs make him drinke wine also this night, and thou shalt lye with him, that we may saue seed of our father. They made their father drinke wine that night also, and the yonger daughter went in, and lay with him: and neyther then truly did he perceiue when she lay downe, or when she rose vp. The two daughters therfore of Lot were with child by their father. And the elder bare a sonne and she called his name Moab: Rh