Genesis 19:17–29

¹⁷And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thy self in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.

¹⁸And Lot said to them: I beseech thee, my Lord,

¹⁹Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I die.

²⁰There is this city here at hand, to which I may flee, it is a little one, and I shall be saved in it: is it not a little one, and my soul shall live?

²¹And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have heard thy prayers, not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken.

²²Make haste, and be saved there: because I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor.

²³The sun was risen upon the earth, and Lot entered into Segor.

²⁴And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

²⁵And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth.

²⁶And his wife looking behind her, was turned into a statue of salt.

²⁷And Abraham got up early in the morning, and in the place where he had stood before with the Lord:

²⁸He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha, and the whole land of that country: and he saw the ashes rise up from the earth as the smoke of a furnace.

²⁹Now when God destroyed the cities of that country, remembering Abraham, he delivered Lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein he had dwelt.