“They said: Move aside. And they said: This one came to sojourn, and he sits in judgment? Now we will treat you worse than them. They were intensely persistent towards the man, Lot, and approached to break the door” (Genesis 19:9).
“They said: Move aside [gesh hala]” – move over, go far away. “They said: This one came to sojourn, and he sits in judgment?”29The literal translation is: He judges judgment. You are coming to destroy the law that was legislated by our predecessors.30You seek to pass judgment on our system of justice. Rabbi Menaḥama in the name of Rabbi Beivai: This is what the residents of Sodom stipulated among themselves, they said: ‘Any guest who comes here, we will have sexual relations with them and take their possessions.
Even the one in whose regard it is written: “[For I love him, so that he will command his children and his household after him] that they observe the path of the Lord [to perform righteousness and justice]” (Genesis 18:19), we would have sexual relations with him and take his possessions.’31Even if Abraham himself would come to Sodom we would do this to him.