Verse 22
Genesis 19:22
World English Bible
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Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
Original Language Text
hebrew
מַהֵר֙ הִמָּלֵ֣ט שָׁ֔מָּ/ה כִּ֣י לֹ֤א אוּכַל֙ לַ/עֲשׂ֣וֹת דָּבָ֔ר עַד בֹּאֲ/ךָ֖ שָׁ֑מָּ/ה עַל כֵּ֛ן קָרָ֥א שֵׁם הָ/עִ֖יר צֽוֹעַר
English Translation
Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there. Therefore, he named the city Zoar.
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Chapter 19 Context
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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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and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your fe...
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He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast,...
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But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young an...
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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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Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.
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He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.
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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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They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he app...
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But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
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They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that...
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The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and who...
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for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before Yahweh tha...
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Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get...
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When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife, and your two da...
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But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahweh...
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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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Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.
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See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, wh...
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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...
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He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not ove...
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Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city wa...
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The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
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Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
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He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on...
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But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
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Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.
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He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that...
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When God (Elohim) destroyed the cities of the plain, God (Elohim) remembered Abraham, and sent Lot o...
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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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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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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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They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He...
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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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They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know...
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Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.
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The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.
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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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