20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

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20 Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”

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22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

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22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.[a](A))

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 19:22 Zoar means small.