Genesis 19:17–29

¹⁷And it cometh to pass when he hath brought them out without, that he saith, ‘Escape for thy life; look not expectingly behind thee, nor stand thou in all the circuit; to the mountain escape, lest thou be consumed.’ ¹⁸And Lot saith unto them, ‘Not so, I pray thee, my lord; ¹⁹lo, I pray thee, thy servant hath found grace in thine eyes, and thou dost make great thy kindness which thou hast done with me by saving my life, and I am unable to escape to the mountain, lest the evil cleave to me, and I have died; ²⁰lo, 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.’ ²¹And he saith unto him, ‘Lo, I have accepted thy face also for this thing, without overthrowing the city for which thou hast spoken; ²²haste, escape thither, for I am not able to do anything till thine entering thither;’ therefore hath he calleth the name of the city Zoar. ²³The sun hath gone out on the earth, and Lot hath entered into Zoar.

²⁴And Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens; ²⁵and He overthroweth these cities, and all the circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which is shooting up from the ground.

²⁶And his wife looketh expectingly from behind him, and she is—a pillar of salt!

²⁷And Abraham riseth early in the morning, unto the place where he hath stood before the face of Jehovah; ²⁸and he looketh on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the face of the land of the circuit, and seeth, and lo, the smoke of the land went up as smoke of the furnace. ²⁹And it cometh to pass, in God’s destroying the cities of the circuit, that God remembereth Abraham, and sendeth Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in the overthrowing of the cities in which Lot dwelt.