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Myths of the Founders 123
said, My LORD, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray
thee, from thy servant: Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet,
and rest yourselves under the tree: And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye
your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant.
And they said, So do, as thou hast said. (Gen. 18:2–5)
And in another instance, when Abraham sends a servant to fetch a wife for Isaac,
the servant remarks:
Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city
come out to draw water: And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall
say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink,
and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for
thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my
master. (Gen. 24:13–14)
The two angels in Lot’s house pulled their host inside and struck the intruders
blind. They then warned Lot that God planned to destroy the town and that he and
his family should flee. When Lot informed his relatives, they thought he was joking
and ignored him. Only his wife and two daughters joined him in attempting to escape
the city unharmed.
The story continues once Lot and his family leave town:
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire
from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain,
and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. (Gen.
19:24–25)
Subsequently, Lot’s wife turned into a pillar of salt and died when she looked back
at the destruction (see Myth #51) and Lot fathered upon his daughters two nations,
Ammon and Moab (see Myth #52). At the final moments in Sodom’s destruction,
Abraham witnesses the fate of the two cities: “And he looked toward Sodom and
Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the
country went up as the smoke of a furnace” (Gen. 19:28).
The story of Lot contains several anachronisms. For example: