16. And while he loitered, the men took hold of his hand, and his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, יהוה having compassion on him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
17. And it came to be, when they had brought them outside, that he said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed.”
18. And Lot said to them, “Oh no, יהוה!
19. “Look, please, your servant has found favour in your eyes, and you have increased your kindness which you have shown me by saving my life, but I am unable to escape to the mountains, lest calamity overtake me and I die.
20. “Look, please, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please let me escape there – is it not a small matter – and let my life be saved?”
21. And He said to him, “Look, I have favoured you concerning this matter also, without overthrowing this city for which you have spoken.
22. “Hurry, escape there. For I am not able to do any deed until you arrive there.” So the name of the city was called Tso‛ar.
23. The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Tso‛ar.
24. And יהוה rained sulphur and fire on Seḏom and Amorah, from יהוה out of the heavens.
25. So He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
26. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a post of salt.