Verse 20
Genesis 19:20
Young's Literal Translation
20
lo, I pray thee, this city [is] near to flee thither, and it [is] little; let me escape, I pray thee, thither, (is it not little?) and my soul doth 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
And two of the messengers come towards Sodom at even, and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom, and L...
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and he saith, 'Lo, I pray you, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, unto the house of your servant, and...
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And he presseth on them greatly, and they turn aside unto him, and come in unto his house; and he ma...
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Before they lie down, the men of the city -- men of Sodom -- have come round about against the house...
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and they call unto Lot and say to him, 'Where [are] the men who have come in unto thee to-night? bri...
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And Lot goeth out unto them, to the opening, and the door hath shut behind him,
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and saith, 'Do not, I pray you, my brethren, do evil;
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lo, I pray you, I have two daughters, who have not known any one; let me, I pray you, bring them out...
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9
And they say, 'Come nigh hither;' they say also, 'This one hath come in to sojourn, and he certainly...
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10
And the men put forth their hand, and bring in Lot unto them, into the house, and have shut the door...
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and the men who [are] at the opening of the house they have smitten with blindness, from small even...
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12
And the men say unto Lot, 'Whom hast thou here still? son-in-law, thy sons also, and thy daughters,...
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for we are destroying this place, for their cry hath been great [before] the face of Jehovah, and Je...
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14
And Lot goeth out, and speaketh unto his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and saith, 'Rise,...
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And when the dawn hath ascended, then the messengers press upon Lot, saying, 'Rise, take thy wife, a...
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16
And he lingereth, and the men lay hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of...
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And it cometh to pass when he hath brought them out without, that he saith, 'Escape for thy life; lo...
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18
And Lot saith unto them, 'Not [so], I pray thee, my lord;
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19
lo, I pray thee, thy servant hath found grace in thine eyes, and thou dost make great thy kindness w...
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20
lo, I pray thee, this city [is] near to flee thither, and it [is] little; let me escape, I pray thee...
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And he saith unto him, 'Lo, I have accepted thy face also for this thing, without overthrowing the c...
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haste, escape thither, for I am not able to do anything till thine entering thither;' therefore hath...
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The sun hath gone out on the earth, and Lot hath entered into Zoar,
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and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heave...
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and He overthroweth these cities, and all the circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and th...
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And his wife looketh expectingly from behind him, and she is -- a pillar of salt!
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And Abraham riseth early in the morning, unto the place where he hath stood [before] the face of Jeh...
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and he looketh on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the face of the land of the circuit, an...
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And it cometh to pass, in God (Elohim)'s destroying the cities of the circuit, that God (Elohim) rem...
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30
And Lot goeth up out of Zoar, and dwelleth in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he h...
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And the first-born saith unto the younger, 'Our father [is] old, and a man there is not in the earth...
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come, we cause our father to drink wine, and lie with him, and preserve from our father -- a seed.'
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And they cause their father to drink wine on that night; and the first-born goeth in, and lieth with...
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And it cometh to pass, on the morrow, that the first-born saith unto the younger, 'Lo, I have lain y...
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And they cause their father to drink wine on that night also, and the younger riseth and lieth with...
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And the two daughters of Lot conceive from their father,
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and the first-born beareth a son, and calleth his name Moab; he [is] father of Moab unto this day;
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as to the younger, she also hath born a son, and calleth his name Ben-Ammi: he [is] father of the Be...
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