World English Bible
Genesis 19:22
“Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.”
Verse in context — Genesis 19
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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 little one?), and my soul will live.
21
He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
22
Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
23
The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
24
Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
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