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THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES CALLED
GENESIS
CHAPTER 19
  5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may aknow them.

Footnotes
5a
‘Know’ is used both in Hebrew and English in this kind of context as a euphemism in place of a sexual word.
Judg. 19: 22 (22-28).
  22 ¶ Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may aknow him.
Isa. 3: 9.
  9 ¶ The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their asin as bSodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.