OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 23

Genesis 19:23

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The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

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Genesis 19:20–26

20

See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live.”

21

He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

22

Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

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The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

24

Then the LORD rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of the sky.

25

He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

26

But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

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