This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

他拉的后代记在下面。他拉生亚伯兰、拿鹤、哈兰；哈兰生罗得。

这是他拉的后代。他拉生亚伯兰、拿鹤和哈兰；哈兰生罗得。

这是他拉的后代。他拉生亚伯兰、拿鹤和哈兰；哈兰生罗得。

以下是他拉的后代。他拉生亚伯兰、拿鹤和哈兰，哈兰生罗得。

以下是他拉的后代：他拉生亚伯兰、拿鹤和哈兰；哈兰生罗得。

以下是塔勒的谱系：塔勒生了亚伯兰、拿鹤、哈兰；哈兰生了罗得。

他拉的後代記在下面。他拉生亞伯蘭、拿鶴、哈蘭；哈蘭生羅得。

這是他拉的後代。他拉生亞伯蘭、拿鶴和哈蘭；哈蘭生羅得。

這是他拉的後代。他拉生亞伯蘭、拿鶴和哈蘭；哈蘭生羅得。

以下是他拉的後代。他拉生亞伯蘭、拿鶴和哈蘭，哈蘭生羅得。

以下是他拉的後代：他拉生亞伯蘭、拿鶴和哈蘭；哈蘭生羅得。

以下這些人是他拉的後代。他拉生亞伯蘭、拿鶴、哈蘭；哈蘭生羅得。

以下是塔勒的譜系：塔勒生了亞伯蘭、拿鶴、哈蘭；哈蘭生了羅得。

他拉之裔如左、他拉生亞伯蘭、拿鶴、哈蘭、哈蘭生羅得、

他拉之裔如左。他拉生亞伯蘭、拿鶴、哈蘭、哈蘭生羅得。

他拉之裔如左、他拉生亞伯蘭、拿鶴、哈蘭、哈蘭生羅得、

This is the account of Terah’s family line. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

Here is the story of Terah’s family line. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

This is the account of Terah’s family. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.

These are the family records of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot.

Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot.

Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

These are the family records of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot.

Now these[ are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.

So Abram left, just as the LORD had told him to do, and Lot went with him.( Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.)

They also took Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions when they left, for Lot was living in Sodom.

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot( the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.

and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless men,

So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.( Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, silver, and gold.)And he journeyed from place to place from the Negev as far as Bethel. He returned to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the LORD.Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.But the land could not support them while they were living side by side. Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live alongside one another.So there were quarrels between Abram’s herdsmen and Lot’s herdsmen.( Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.)Abram said to Lot,“ Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives.Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself now from me. If you go to the left, then I’ll go to the right, but if you go to the right, then I’ll go to the left.”Lot looked up and saw the whole region of the Jordan. He noticed that all of it was well-watered( before the LORD obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, all the way to Zoar.Lot chose for himself the whole region of the Jordan and traveled toward the east. So the relatives separated from each other.

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.He said,“ Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house. Stay the night and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning.”“ No,” they replied,“ we’ll spend the night in the town square.”But he urged them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate.Before they could lie down to sleep, all the men– both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom– surrounded the house.They shouted to Lot,“ Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!”Lot went outside to them, shutting the door behind him.He said,“ No, my brothers! Don’t act so wickedly!Look, I have two daughters who have never had sexual relations with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please. Only don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”“ Out of our way!” they cried, and“ This man came to live here as a foreigner, and now he dares to judge us! We’ll do more harm to you than to them!” They kept pressing in on Lot until they were close enough to break down the door.So the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house as they shut the door.Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, with blindness. The men outside wore themselves out trying to find the door.Then the two visitors said to Lot,“ Who else do you have here? Do you have any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city? Get them out of this placebecause we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place is so great before the LORD that he has sent us to destroy it.”Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. He said,“ Quick, get out of this place because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them.At dawn the angels hurried Lot along, saying,“ Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!”When Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the LORD had compassion on them. They led them away and placed them outside the city.When they had brought them outside, they said,“ Run for your lives! Don’t look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”But Lot said to them,“ No, please, Lord!Your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because this disaster will overtake me and I’ll die.Look, this town over here is close enough to escape to, and it’s just a little one. Let me go there. It’s just a little place, isn’t it? Then I’ll survive.”“ Very well,” he replied,“ I will grant this request too and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.”( This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)The sun had just risen over the land as Lot reached Zoar.Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the LORD.So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.But Lot’s wife looked back longingly and was turned into a pillar of salt.Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the LORD.He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.So when God destroyed the cities of the region, God honored Abraham’s request. He removed Lot from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed the cities Lot had lived in.