15. At dawn the angels tried to make Lot hurry. “Quick!” they said. “Take your wife and your two daughters and get out, so that you will not lose your lives when the city is destroyed.”
16. Lot hesitated. The Lord, however, had pity on him; so the men took him, his wife, and his two daughters by the hand and led them out of the city.
17. Then one of the angels said, “Run for your lives! Don't look back and don't stop in the valley. Run to the hills, so that you won't be killed.”
18. But Lot answered, “No, please don't make us do that, sir.
19. You have done me a great favour and saved my life. But the hills are too far away; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die before I get there.
20. Do you see that little town? It is near enough. Let me go over there — you can see it is just a small place — and I will be safe.”
21. He answered, “All right, I agree. I won't destroy that town.
22. Hurry! Run! I can't do anything until you get there.”Because Lot called it small, the town was named Zoar.
23. The sun was rising when Lot reached Zoar.
24. Suddenly the Lord rained burning sulphur on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
25. and destroyed them and the whole valley, along with all the people there and everything that grew on the land.
26. But Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt.