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Genesis 19:24

Verse 24 of 38. The 19th of 50 chapters in Genesis, in The Law.

20See 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.”

21He 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.

22Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

23The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

24Then the LORD rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of the sky.

25He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

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

27Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

28He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.