Genesis 19:22
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19 See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindness, which you have showed to me in saving my life. I can`t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
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 accepted you 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.
23 The sun was risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh 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.