20See 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.|


In Context

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!|

18 Lot said to them, |Oh, not so, my lord.

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.

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.

Genesis 19:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:20Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, ([is] it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

19:20Look, 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."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:20There is this city here at hand, to which I may flee, it is a little one, and I shall be saved in it: is it not a little one, and my soul shall live?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:20behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape thither (is it not a little one?), and my soul shall live.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:20Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is small: I pray thee, let me escape thither is it not small? and my soul shall live.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:20behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:20Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a small one: Oh, let me escape thither! (Is it not a small one?) and my soul shall live.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:20lo, I pray thee, this city is near to flee thither, and it is little; let me escape, I pray thee, thither, (is it not little?) and my soul doth live.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:20Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.