19. Because 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:
20. There 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?
21. And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have heard thy prayers, not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken.
22. Make 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.
23. The sun was risen upon the earth, and Lot entered into Segor.
24. And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
25. And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth.
26. And his wife looking behind her, was turned into a statue of salt.
27. And Abraham got up early in the morning and in the place where he had stood before with the Lord, U
28. He 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.
29. Now when God destroyed the cities of that country, remembering Abraham, he delivered Lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein he had dwelt.
30. And Lot went up out of Segor, and abode in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, (for he was afraid to stay in Segor,) and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.
31. And the elder said to the younger Our father is old, and there is no man left on the earth, to come in unto us after the manner of the whole earth.
32. Come, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
33. And they made their father drink wine that night: and the elder went in and lay with her father: but he perceived not neither when his daughter lay down, nor when she rose up.