From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for January 6   
      
   Genesis Chapter 19   
      
   1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of   
   Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself   
   with his face toward the ground;   
      
   2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your   
   servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall   
   rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will   
   abide in the street all night.   
      
   3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and   
   entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake   
   unleavened bread, and they did eat.   
      
   4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom,   
   compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every   
   quarter:   
      
   5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which   
   came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.   
      
   6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,   
      
   7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to   
   them, and shut to the door.   
      
   11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with   
   blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find   
   the door.   
      
   12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law,   
   and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city,   
   bring them out of this place:   
      
   13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen   
   great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.   
      
   14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his   
   daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will   
   destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.   
      
   15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying,   
   Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou   
   be consumed in the iniquity of the city.   
      
   16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the   
   hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being   
   merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.   
      
   17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he   
   said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in   
   all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.   
      
   18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:   
      
   19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast   
   magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life;   
   and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:   
      
   20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one:   
   Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.   
      
   21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing   
   also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.   
      
   22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be   
   come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.   
      
   23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.   
      
   24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire   
   from the LORD out of heaven;   
      
   25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the   
   inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.   
      
   26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of   
   salt.   
      
   27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood   
   before the LORD:   
      
   28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of   
   the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the   
   smoke of a furnace.   
      
   29 And 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 the which Lot dwelt.   
      
   30 And Lot went up out of 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.   
      
   31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there   
   is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the   
   earth:   
      
   32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him,   
   that we may preserve seed of our father.   
      
   33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn   
   went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay   
   down, nor when she arose.   
      
   34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the   
   younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink   
   wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may   
   preserve seed of our father.   
      
   35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the   
   younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down,   
   nor when she arose.   
      
   36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.   
      
   37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is   
   the father of the Moabites unto this day.   
      
   38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi:   
   the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.   
      
   Genesis Chapter 20   
      
   1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and   
   dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.   
      
   2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech   
   king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.   
      
   3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him,   
   Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken;   
   for she is a man's wife.   
      
   4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay   
   also a righteous nation?   
      
   5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said,   
   He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands   
   have I done this.   
      
   6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in   
   the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning   
   against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.   
      
   7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he   
   shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not,   
      
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