¹ tn The disjunctive clause is temporal here, indicating what Lot was doing at the time of their arrival.

² tn Heb “sitting in the gate of Sodom.” The phrase “the gate of Sodom” has been translated “the city’s gateway” for stylistic reasons.

sn The expression sitting in the city’s gateway may mean that Lot was exercising some type of judicial function (see the use of the idiom in 2 Sam 19:8; Jer 26:10; 38:7; 39:3).

³ tn Heb “drink wine.”

⁴ tn Heb “the firstborn.”

⁵ tn Heb “and the firstborn came and lied down with her father.” The expression “lied down with” here and in the following verses is a euphemism for sexual relations.

⁶ tn Heb “and he did not know when she lay down and when she arose.”

⁷ tn Heb “drink wine.”

⁸ tn Heb “lied down with him.”

⁹ tn Heb “And he did not know when she lied down and when she arose.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “lifted his eyes.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and saw, and look.” The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) draws attention to what Abraham saw and invites the audience to view the scene through his eyes.

¹² tc The translation follows the reading of the MT; a number of Hebrew mss, the LXX, Syriac, and Samaritan Pentateuch read “one” (אֶחָד, ’ekhad) instead of “behind him” (אַחַר, ’akhar).

¹³ tn Heb “Abraham”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁴ tn Heb “And they ate and drank, he and the men who [were] with him and they spent the night.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “Send me away to my master.”