19. Your servant has found favour 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.)