Skip to content

Verse

RBT Translation:

And Lot is going out toward them, the Opening-ward, and the Door he has shut his back.662

LITV Translation:
And Lot went out to them, to the door, and he closed the door behind him.
ESV Translation:
Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him,
Brenton Septuagint Translation:
And Lot went out to them to the porch, and he shut the door after him,

Footnotes

662

and the Door has shut behind him. Recall the choice of words in Genesis 2:21, “Yahweh shut up the Flesh underneath” and in Genesis 7:16, “and Yahweh is shutting behind him.” The same meta-narrative is repeating throughout virtually every narrative.