The Flight of Lot and His Family from Sodom (after Rubens) by Jacob Jordaens

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Genesis 19:14-29

Genesis 19 14

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

Genesis 19 15

When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”

Genesis 19 16

But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.

Genesis 19 17

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

Genesis 19 18

Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.

Genesis 19 19

See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

Genesis 19 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.”

Genesis 19 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.

Genesis 19 22

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

Genesis 19 23

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

Genesis 19 24

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

Genesis 19 25

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

Genesis 19 26

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

Genesis 19 27

Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

Genesis 19 28

He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

Genesis 19 29

When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.