Midrash sur La Genèse 19:1

And Hidod lifted up his eyes and saw the man upon the public street, and he went unto his ‎presence and asked him: Whence comest thou and whither dost thou go? And the man ‎replied: I am coming from Hebron and I am going to Elam where my home is. And I came up to ‎this place and the sun hath set over me and I seated myself in the streets, but there is no one ‎here to invite me into his house, though I have bread and water with me as also straw and ‎fodder for my ass; I lack nothing. And Hidod said unto the man: Leave all thy cares to me, and ‎indeed thou shalt not spend thy night in the street. And Hidod having brought the man into his ‎house untied the fine mantle and its cord from the ass, and the traveler slept at his house that ‎night. And in the morning the man rose and made himself ready to start when Hidod begged ‎him, saying: Stay yet a while and support thy heart with a morsel of bread and then thou canst ‎go. And the man did so, and they sat down to take their meal. And they continued eating and ‎drinking together until the man arose in order to leave. But Hidod said unto him: Behold the ‎day is declining and before long it will be night. Now therefore let me prevail upon thee to stay ‎with me and rejoice thy heart another night in my house. And Hidod pressed the man to stay, ‎until he consented to do so. And next morning when the man prepared to leave, Hidod again ‎forced the man saying: Refresh thy heart with a morsel of bread and then thou mayest go. ‎And after they finished eating and drinking and the man arose to go, Hidod again insisted upon ‎him to remain saying: Behold the day is most gone, you better stay another night in my house ‎and leave right in the morning. But the man would not allow himself to be persuaded and was ‎decided upon leaving. And the man went out and saddled his ass hastily. And Hidod’s wife, ‎seeing the man saddling his ass, came unto her husband saying: Behold this man hath been in ‎our house two days and two nights, eating and drinking, and now he is about to leave without ‎paying us anything for it. And Hidod said unto her: Keep thou silent. And the man saddling his ‎ass, said unto Hidod: Will thou now please to give me my mantle with many different colors ‎and the cord? And Hidod said: What is it thou art saying? And the man repeated, saying: I ‎would ask of my lord, to give unto me my mantle of many different colors and the cord, which ‎thou hast hidden in thy house for safe keeping. And Hidod replied unto the man, saying: This is ‎the interpretation of thy dream. The cord signifies that thy life will be prolonged like a cord, ‎and the mantle so rich in colors means, that thou wilt plant a vineyard wherein thou wilt have ‎all kinds of delicious fruit-trees. And the traveler rejoined saying: Not so my lord, I was not ‎dreaming but fully awake when I gave unto thee my mantle woven in so many colors, and a ‎cord, which thou hast removed from my ass and taken into thy house for safe-keeping. And ‎Hidod said unto the man: Well, and have I not fully explained unto thee thy dream and its ‎interpretation? Verily it is a good dream thou hast dreamed. And now the people pay me ‎generally four pieces of silver for interpreting their dreams, but from thee I will not ask more ‎than three pieces.‎

And the man became fearfully enraged and cried out a terrible and bitter cry against Hidod, ‎and he forced Hidod to go with him unto the judge of Sodom whose name was Sherek. And ‎the stranger laid his grievances before the judge, and Hidod replied according to his own story. ‎And the judge in his decision said unto the traveler: It is the truth that this man Hidod was ‎speaking unto thee. For he is known in these cities as the most reliable among interpreters of ‎dreams. But the stranger appealed from the decision of the judge, crying and saying: Not so ‎my lord, but it was in day time that I have surrendered into his care a mantle and cord which I ‎had fastened upon my ass, and which he took into his house for safe keeping. But Hidod ‎denied the allegations of the stranger and they stood before the judge quarreling, each of the ‎men insisting upon the truth of his own statement. And Hidod finally turned unto the man ‎saying: Now since I see what kind of a man thou art, thou must pay me four pieces of silver for ‎the interpretation of thy dream, I will take nothing less; besides thou must give me the money ‎for the four meals thou hast taken in my house. And the stranger replied: The truth is with ‎thee that I should pay for the meals I have eaten at thy house, and I will willingly do so; but ‎then give me my mantle and cord which thou hast hidden in thy house. And Hidod said unto ‎the man: And have I not disclosed unto thee the interpretation of thy dream? The cord shows ‎that thy days will be lengthened like a cord, and the mantle with various. colors signifies that ‎thou wilt have a vineyard wherein thou wilt have planted different kinds of delicious fruit ‎trees? And now give me my hire for interpreting thy dream which is four pieces of silver, for I ‎will not allow thee the least beyond my usual hire. And thus the two men were quarreling ‎before the judge until he became tired and called his servants and they drove both of them ‎out of the house in great haste and confusion. And while they were both ejected from the ‎presence of the judge, still quarreling and fighting, all the people of Sodom surrounded them ‎and hooted at the stranger and abused him, and drove him from the city in disgrace. And the ‎poor man prosecuted his way upon his ass, weeping and lamenting in the bitterness of his ‎soul. And he never ceased crying and lamenting until Sodom was destroyed. And there were ‎in Sodom four judges for the four cities, and these are their names: Sherek, for the city of ‎Sodom; Sharkar, for Gomorrah; Sabnach, for Admah; and Menun, for Zboyim. And Eliezer, the ‎servant of Abraham made puns upon them and he changed their names; and he made of ‎Sherek, Shakra (lie), and of Sharkar, Shakruka (falsehood), and of Sabnach, Casban (liar), and ‎of Menun he made Mazul-indin (perverter of justice).‎

And upon the advice of those judges the people of Sodom and Gomorrah had beds erected in ‎the public streets of the cities. And when a traveler came to tarry in their cities they would ‎seize upon him and put him into one of those bedsteads by force. And if he was shorter than ‎the bedstead, six men would lay hands on him and stretch him until he was equal in length; ‎and if he was taller then they would press him against the two sides of the bedstead until he ‎would fit. And they did not give ear to the cries of the strangers but tortured them until they ‎almost reached the gates of death, when they told unto him: So it will be done to ‎everyone that cometh into our land. And all the people hearing of what was done in the cities ‎of Sodom, kept away from coming into these places. And when a poor man came into any of ‎their cities they were extremely liberal with their charity. And they opened their hands and ‎gave unto the needy and destitute silver and gold in great abundance. And after that, they ‎caused it to be proclaimed in a loud voice throughout all their territory that no one dare to give ‎that poor man a morsel of bread for all the money he might offer. And since no man could get ‎out of the land before many days, the poor man had to die of starvation, for no one would ‎give him a morsel of bread in all their cities. And when the poor man was dead, all those that ‎gave him their silver and gold came and recognized it and got it back. And they took away the ‎garments off the poor man and fought over them, and whosoever was strongest took all unto ‎himself. And after the corpse was thus stripped of its garments they buried it in its nudity into ‎one of the ditches of the deserts around them. And so they would do to every stranger that ‎happened to die in their land. And after many days Sarah sent Eliezer to Sodom in order to see ‎Lot and to inquire for his peace. And while on his way Eliezer met one of the Sodomites ‎robbing a stranger of his garments, and then leaving the poor man naked in the field. And the ‎poor man cried unto Eliezer for help, and the poor man wept bitterly on account of what the ‎Sodomite had done unto him. And Eliezer said unto the man of Sodom: Why dost thou act so ‎wickedly towards this poor man who came round here? And the Sodomite replied, saying: Is ‎this man thy brother or have the people of Sodom chosen thee for their judge that thou ‎takest his part and speakest in his behalf? And Eliezer quarreled with the Sodomite concerning ‎the poor man and approached him to take away from him the garments he had stripped the ‎man of, but the Sodomite seized a stone and threw it with great force at Eliezer's forehead. ‎And Eliezer was wounded in his forehead and his blood was streaming from the wound. And ‎the Sodomite seeing the blood took hold upon Eliezer saying: Give me my hire for the ‎bloodletting I have performed on thee, for behold I have relieved thee of all thy bad blood, ‎and such is the law in our land concerning these things. And Eliezer became incensed, saying: Is ‎it not enough that thou hast wounded me and now shall I give thee yet hire for thy ‎wickedness? And Eliezer would not listen to the voice of the man,