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This man was a nephew of Abraham.
So the angels[1] departed for Sodom to wipe out the cities because of their sins. But Abraham supplicated [God] not to destroy the righteous with the impious, probably on account of Lot.[2] Now the angels, being in Sodom, received hospitality from Lot. Then the Sodomites were trying to drag them away for debauchery. When he offered his daughters instead, because of his hospitality to strangers, since [the men of Sodom] were not dissuaded, their sight was destroyed by the angels,[3] but Lot together with his daughters and with his wife was sent out. His wife, because she turned around, was changed into a pillar of salt. Now Lot was delivered to Segor[4] and was the partial cause for the salvation of the city, when the men disappeared, as Scripture[5] says, after the remaining four cities were destroyed and after a salt pan[6] was made to exist on the land at the same time. And on the mountain after he was made drunk he had sex with his daughters, and was the father of both Moab and Ammon.[7] Now when the sons of Israel were in Sattin[8] they committed fornication with the daughters of the Moabites; they served idols and worshiped Beelphegor,[9] and participated in sacrifices. But Moses incited against them those who had not sinned, and twenty-four thousand were killed. Phineas the priest seized an Israelite named Zambri,[10] who had been sexually involved with a Midianite named Chasbith,[11] ran them both through and caused the wrath of God to cease.[12]

Lôt: houtos anepsios ên Abraam. apêiesan oun hoi angeloi eis Sodoma aphanisai tas poleis dia tas hamartias autôn. ho de Abraam hiketeuse dikaion meta asebous mê sunapolesai, tacha dia ton Lôt. hoi de angeloi en Sodomois genomenoi xenias etuchon para tou Lôt. hoi de Sodomitai apospan autous epeirônto pros diaphthoran. tou de dia philoxenian antiproïschontos tas thugateras, hôs ouk epeithonto, hoi men hupo tôn angelôn êphanizonto tas opseis, ho de hama tais thugatrasi kai têi sumbiôi exepempeto: hêtis metastrapheisa meteblêthê hôs stêlên halos. ho de Lôt eis Sêgôr diasôtheis têi te polei paraitios egeneto sôtêrias, tôn andrôn aphanisthentôn, hôs logos, tôn de loipôn d# diaphthareisôn kai tês limnês hama têi gêi anatrapeisês. kan tôi orei methustheis tais thugatrasi sunêlthe teknoi te ton Môab kai ton Ammôn. hoi de huioi Israêl ontes en Sattin exeporneusan tais thugatrasi tôn Môabitôn, eidôlolatrêsantes kai proskunêsantes tôi Beelphegôr, kai tôn thusiôn metelabon. Môüsês de parôxune kat' autôn tous ouch hamartontas: kai anêirethêsan dismurioi kai tetrakischilioi. Phinees de ho hiereus katalabôn Israêlitên, onoma Zambri, sumpeplegmenon Madianitidi, hêi onoma Chasbith, amphoterous diepeire kai ton thumon epause tou theou.

For Lot in the Suda see also under alpha 69, sigma 253, sigma 294.
[1] For the story of the visit of the angels to Abraham and the destruction of the cities of the plain, see Genesis 18-19. At the beginning of the story the Septuagint says "God appeared" to Abraham in 18.1 but in 18.2, 16, 22 they are referred to as "men." In 19.1 the two who go to destroy are called "angels." This parallels the Hebrew exactly, except that in 18.1 the Massoretic text has "LORD" instead of "God." Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 1.196, simply calls them "angels."
[2] Genesis 18.16-33.
[3] The biblical account mentions how the Sodomites, surrounding the house of Lot and demanding the angels, were struck blind so that they could not find the door to Lot's house.
[4] This spelling of the Hebrew צוֹעַר is the same as that in the LXX. Josephus, AJ 1.204, spells the name *zww/r.
[5] For lo/gos referring to Scripture, see Lampe, Patristic Greek Lexicon, s.v., lo/gos I.A.9.
[6] Greek li/mnh, which LSJ defines as "a pond of standing water." What we call the Dead Sea is not called a li/mnh in the 39 books of the Jewish Greek Bible, but the Salt Sea, h( qa/lassa tw=n a(lw=n (e.g., Genesis 14.3), or "the sea east of the city of palms," h( qa/lassa h( pro\s a)natola\s foinikw=nos (Ezekiel 47.18). However, in 1 Maccabees 11.35, we read h( tou= h(lo\s li/mnh, which Brenton (The Septuagint Version) renders "salt pits" and Goldstein (1 Maccabees, 430, 433, and 406) "salt pans."
[7] Genesis 19.30-38.
[8] The LXX reads *sattei/n for the Hebrew שיטים Shittim.
[9] The Suda here follows the LXX; the Hebrew has בַּעַל פְּעוֹר Baal-Peor.. The second letter of Peor, ע ayin, is a guttural consonant. At times it was not transliterated into Greek, but at other times (usually at the beginning of words, see Blass, Debrunner, Funk, sect. 39) it was rendered by the Greek gamma as here.
[10] Spelling as in the LXX; Josephus has *zambri/as. The Hebrew is זִמְרִי (Zimri).
[11] The Suda reads *xasbi/q; the LXX at Numbers 25.15 reads *xosbi/; Josephus, AJ 4.153, reads *xosbi/a. The Hebrew is כְָּזְבִּי (Kosbi).
[12] For this story see Numbers 25.1-15; cf. phi 466.

Josephus. H. St. J. Thackeray et al., trans. 10 vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1926-1965
The Septuagint Version of the Old Testament and Apocrypha. Lancelot C.L. Brenton, trans. 1854; rpt., London: Samuel Bagster and Sons Limited, n.d.
Blass F., A. Debrunner and Robert W. Funk. A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1961
Goldstein, Jonathan A. I Maccabees. Anchor Bible. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1976
Hull, E. "Dead Sea", A Dictionary of the Bible, James Hastings, ed. 1898; rpt., Peabody, Mass.: Hendricksen, 1998, 1:575-7
Lampe, G.W.H. A Patristic Greek Lexicon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961

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