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Genesis 19:11-14 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

11. they struck the men at the entrance of the house, small and great, with such a blinding light that they were utterly unable to find the doorway.

12. Then the guests said to Lot: “Who else belongs to you here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, all who belong to you in the city—take them away from this place!

13. We are about to destroy this place, for the outcry reaching the Lord against those here is so great that the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”

14. So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had contracted marriage with his daughters. “Come on, leave this place,” he told them; “the Lord is about to destroy the city.” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

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