Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Genesis 19:2
turn in, I pray you . . . tarry all night—offer of the same generous hospitalities as described in Genesis 18:2-8, and which are still spontaneously practised in the small towns.
And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night—Where there are no inns and no acquaintance, it is not uncommon for travellers to sleep in the street wrapped up in their cloaks.
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