^{20 Ref} 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.

^{21 Ref} And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken.

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

²³ The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar.

^{24 Ref} Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven;

^{25 Ref} and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

^{26 Ref} But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

^{27 Ref} And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Jehovah:

^{28 Ref} and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

^{29 Ref} And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

^{30 Ref} And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.