^{20 Ref} This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there (is it not a little one?) so that my life may be safe.

^{21 Ref} And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town.

^{22 Ref} Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar.

²³ The sun was up when Lot came to Zoar.

^{24 Ref} Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.

^{25 Ref} And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land.

^{26 Ref} But Lot's wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt.

^{27 Ref} And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord:

^{28 Ref} And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven.

^{29 Ref} So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.

^{30 Ref} Then Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and was living there with his two daughters, for fear kept him from living in Zoar: and he and his daughters made their living-place in a hole in the rock.