¹⁷And after bringing them outside one said, “Flee for your life; do not look behind you, and do not stand anywhere in the plain. Flee to the mountains lest you be destroyed.” ¹⁸And Lot said to them, “No, please, my lords. ¹⁹Behold, your servant has found favor in your eyes and you have shown me great kindness^j in saving my life. But I cannot flee to the mountains, lest the disaster overtake me and I die. ²⁰Behold, this city is near enough to flee there, and it is a little one. Please, let me flee there. Is it not a little one? Then my life shall be saved.” ²¹And he said to him, “Behold, I will grant this favor as well;^k that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. ²²Escape there quickly, for I cannot do this thing until you get there.” Therefore, the name of the city was called Zoar.

The Destruction of Sodom

²³After the sun had risen^l upon the earth and Lot had entered Zoar, ²⁴Yahweh rained down from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh. ²⁵And he overthrew those cities and the whole plain, and the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation of the ground. ²⁶But his^m wife looked back,ⁿ and she became a pillar of salt. ²⁷And Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before Yahweh. ²⁸And he looked down upon the surface of Sodom and Gomorrah, and upon the whole surface of the land, the plain. And he saw that,^o behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a smelting furnace. ²⁹So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out from the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

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Genesis 19:26: But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Footnotes

jLiterally “your kindness which you have done to me you have made great”
kLiterally “I am lifting up your face also concerning this thing”
lLiterally “had gone out”
mThat is, Lot’s
nLiterally “behind him”
oOr “and”