20 See now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one; please let me escape there (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.”

21 And he said to him, “See, (A)I have favored you concerning this thing also, in that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken. 22 Hurry, escape there. For (B)I cannot do anything until you arrive there.”

Therefore (C)the name of the city was called [a]Zoar.

23 The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar. 24 Then the Lord rained (D)brimstone and (E)fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 19:22 Lit. Little or Insignificant

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