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


In Context

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.

23 The sun had 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.

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

19:22But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it." (That is why the town 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 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.