Genesis 19:19-30

19Now behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindness, which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the 1mountains, for the disaster will overtake me and I will die; 20now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) 2that my life may be saved.” 21He said to him, “Behold, I grant you this 3request also, not to overthrow the town of which you have spoken. 22Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the town was called 45Zoar.

23The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar. 24Then the Lord 6rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven, 25and 7He overthrew those cities, and all the 8valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. 26But his wife, from behind him, 9looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

27Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went to 10the place where he had stood before the Lord; 28and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the 11valley, and he saw, and behold, 12the smoke of the land ascended like the smoke of a 13furnace.

29Thus it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the 14valley, that 15God remembered Abraham, and 16sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

30Lot went up from Zoar, and 1718stayed in the 19mountains, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to 20stay in Zoar; and he 21stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters.