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Genesis 19:8-12 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

8. I have two daughters who as yet have not known man: I will bring them out to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so that you do no evil to these men, because they are come in under the shadow of my roof.

9. But they said: Get thee back thither. And again: Thou camest in, said they, as a, stranger, was it to be a judge? therefore we will afflict thee more than them. 0 And they pressed very violently upon Lot: and they were even at the point of breaking open the doors.

10. And behold the men put out their hand, and drew in Lot unto them, and shut the door:

11. And them that were without, p they struck with blindness from the least to the greatest, so that they could not find the door.

12. And they said to Lot: Hast thou here ally of thine? son in law, or sons, or daughters, all that are thine bring them out of this city:

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