22But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it." (That is why the town was called Zoar. )


In Context

19 Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can't flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I'll die.

20 Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it-it is very small, isn't it? Then my life will be spared."

21 He said to him, "Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of.

22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it." (That is why the town was called Zoar. )

23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.

24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah-from the Lord out of the heavens.

Genesis 19:22 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:22Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:22Make haste and be saved there, because I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:22Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:22Haste, escape thither; for I cannot do anything until thou art come there. Therefore the name of the city is called Zoar.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:22Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:22Haste thee, escape thither: for I cannot do any thing till thou hast come thither: therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:22Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there.| Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:22haste, escape thither, for I am not able to do anything till thine entering thither;' therefore hath he calleth the name of the city Zoar.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:22Haste you, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till you be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.