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Genesis 19:11

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They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

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Genesis 19:11 in other translations

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.

Genesis 19:11 · American Standard Version

Genesis 19:11 in context

  1. 9They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.
  2. 10But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
  3. 11They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
  4. 12The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:
  5. 13for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.”