19. Look, please, your servant has found favor in Your eyes and You have magnified Your merciful loyalty, which You have shown me by letting me live. But I can’t escape to the hill country—for the disaster will overtake me and I’ll die!
20. Look, please, this city is close enough to flee there, and it’s little. Please let me escape there. Isn’t it small? And let me live!”
21. So He said to him, “Behold, I will grant your request concerning this matter too—not to demolish the city of which you have spoken.
22. Hurry! Flee to safety there, because I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” (This is why the town is named Zoar.)
23. The moment the sun rose upon the land, Lot entered Zoar,
24. and Adonai rained sulfur and fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah from Adonai out of the sky.
25. So He demolished these cities and the whole surrounding area, all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation of the ground.
26. But his wife looked behind him and she turned into a pillar of salt.