Bible in Basic English
"And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in."
— Genesis 19:9, Bible in Basic English
And Lot went out to them in the doorway, shutting the door after him.
And he said, My brothers, do not this evil.
See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof.
And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in.
But the men put out their hands and took Lot into the house to them, shutting the door again.
But the men who were outside the door they made blind, all of them, small and great, so that they were tired out with looking for the door.
Then the men said to Lot, Are there any others of your family here? sons-in-law or sons or daughters, take them all out of this place;