Verse 20
Genesis 19:20
World English Bible, British Edition
20
See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let
me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
הִנֵּה נָ֠א הָ/עִ֨יר הַ/זֹּ֧את קְרֹבָ֛ה לָ/נ֥וּס שָׁ֖מָּ/ה וְ/הִ֣יא מִצְעָ֑ר אִמָּלְטָ֨ה נָּ֜א שָׁ֗מָּ/ה הֲ/לֹ֥א מִצְעָ֛ר הִ֖וא וּ/תְחִ֥י נַפְשִֽׁ/י
English Translation
Behold now, this city is close enough to flee there, and it is small; let me escape there—is it not small? And my soul will live.
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Chapter 19 Context
1
The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot
saw them, and rose up to...
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2
and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house,
stay all night, wash your fe...
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3
He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered
into his house. He made them a feast,...
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4
But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded
the house, both young an...
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5
They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to
you this night? Bring them ou...
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6
Lot went out to them through the door, and shut the door after
himself.
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7
He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.
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8
See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to
you, and you may do to them wh...
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9
They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came
in to live as a foreigner, and he app...
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10
But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house
to them, and shut the door.
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11
They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness,
both small and great, so that...
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12
The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law,
your sons, your daughters, and who...
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13
for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has
grown so great before the LORD t...
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14
Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged
to marry his daughters, and said, “Get...
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15
When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up!
Take your wife and your two dau...
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16
But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and
his two daughters’ hands, the LO...
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17
It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape
for your life! Don’t look behin...
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18
Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.
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19
See now, your servant has found favour in your sight, and you have
magnified your loving kindness, w...
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20
See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let
me escape there (isn’t it a li...
21
He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning
this thing also, that I will not ove...
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22
Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.”
Therefore the name of the city wa...
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23
The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
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24
Then the LORD rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulphur and fire from
the LORD out of the sky.
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25
He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the
cities, and that which grew on...
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26
But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar
of salt.
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27
Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had
stood before the LORD.
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28
He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah, and towards all the land of the
plain, and saw that the smoke...
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29
When God (Elohim) destroyed the cities of the plain, God (Elohim) remembered Abraham,
and sent Lot o...
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30
Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his
two daughters with him; for he was afrai...
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31
The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is
not a man in the earth to come i...
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32
Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that
we may preserve our father’s...
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33
They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went
in, and lay with her father. He...
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34
It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger,
“Behold, I lay last night w...
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35
They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went
and lay with him. He didn’t know...
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36
Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.
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37
The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the
Moabites to this day.
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38
The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the
father of the children of Ammon...
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