Genesis 19:7
Good News Translation
He said to them, "Friends, I beg you, don't do such a wicked thing!

New Revised Standard Version
and said, “I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.

Contemporary English Version
Then he said, "Friends, please don't do such a terrible thing!

New American Bible
he said, “I beg you, my brothers, do not do this wicked thing!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do not so, I beseech you, my brethren, do not commit this evil.

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Do not so, I beseech you, my brethren, do not commit this evil.

Genesis 19:4 But before they went to bed, the men of the city beset the house, both young and old, all the people together.

Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: because it is an abomination.

Leviticus 20:13 If any one lie with a man as with a woman, both have committed an abomination: let them be put to death. Their blood be upon them.

Deuteronomy 23:17 There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel.

Judges 19:23 And the old man went out to them, and said: Do not so, my brethren, do not so wickedly: because this man is come into my lodging, and cease I pray you from this folly.

1 Samuel 30:23,24 But David said: You shall not do so, my brethren, with these things, which the Lord hath given us, who hath kept us, and hath delivered the robbers that invaded us into our hands: . . .

Acts 17:26 And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation.

Romans 1:24 Wherefore, God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness: to dishonour their own bodies among themselves.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers: . . .

Jude 1:7 As Sodom and Gomorrha and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, having given themselves to fornication and going after other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

Context
Lot Welcomes the Angels
6Lot went out to them, and shut the door after him, and said: 7Do not so, I beseech you, my brethren, do not commit this evil.8I have two daughters who, as yet, have not known man; I will bring them out to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so that you do no evil to these men, because they are come in under the shadow of my roof.…
Cross References
Genesis 19:6
Lot went out to them, and shut the door after him, and said:

Genesis 19:8
I have two daughters who, as yet, have not known man; I will bring them out to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so that you do no evil to these men, because they are come in under the shadow of my roof.

Genesis 19:6
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