18. And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, Adonoi (My L-rd):
19. Hinei now, thy eved hath found chen in Thy sight, and Thou hast magnified Thy chesed, which Thou hast showed unto me in sparing my nefesh; and I cannot flee to escape to the mountain, lest some ra'ah overtake me, and I die;
20. Hinei now, this Ir is near to run unto, and it is a little one; Oh, let me flee to escape there, (is it not mitzar [small]?) and my nefesh shall live.
21. And He said unto him, Hinei, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the Ir, for the which thou hast spoken.
22. Haste thee, flee to escape there; for I cannot do anything till thou arrive there. Therefore the shem of the Ir was called Tzoar [sounds like mitzar].
23. The shemesh rose over ha'aretz when Lot entered Tzoar.
24. Then Hashem rained upon Sodom and upon Amora gofrit and eish from Hashem out of Shomayim;
25. And He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and tzemach (what grew) upon haadamah.
26. But his isha, from behind him, looked back, and she became a netziv melach (pillar of salt).
27. And Avraham got up early in the boker to the makom where he stood there before Hashem;