Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed

19 The two angels^(A) arrived at Sodom^(B) in the evening, and Lot^(C) was sitting in the gateway of the city.^(D) When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.^(E)

¹⁰ Ephron the Hittite was sitting among his people and he replied to Abraham in the hearing of all the Hittites^(A) who had come to the gate^(B) of his city.

¹⁸ to Abraham as his property^(A) in the presence of all the Hittites^(B) who had come to the gate^(C) of the city.

²⁰ So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city^(A) to speak to the men of their city.