20. There is a certain city nearby, to which I can flee; it is a little one, and I will be saved in it. Is it not a modest one, and will not my soul live?"
21. And he said to him: "Behold, even now, I have heard your petitions about this, not to overturn the city on behalf of which you have spoken.
22. Hurry and be saved there. For I cannot do anything until you enter there." For this reason, the name of that city is called Zoar.
23. The sun had risen over the land, and Lot had entered into Zoar.
24. Therefore, the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah sulphur and fire, from the Lord, out of heaven.