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Genesis 19:21
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19 Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil overtake me and I die.
20 See now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one; please let me escape there (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.”
21 And he said to him, “See, aI have favored you concerning this thing also, in that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken.  
22 Hurry, escape there. For aI cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore bthe name of the city was called1 Zoar.  
23 The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar.
24 Then the Lord rained abrimstone and bfire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens.  
25 So He1 overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and awhat grew on the ground.  
26 But his wife looked back behind him, and she became aa pillar of salt.  
Verse Comparison: Genesis 19:21

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American Standard Version
And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken.

Amplified® Bible
And [the angel] said to him, See, I have yielded to your entreaty concerning this thing also; I will not destroy this city of which you have spoken.

Contemporary English Version
"All right, go there," he answered. "I won't destroy that town.

Darby English Version
And he said to him, Behold, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken.

Good News Bible
He answered, "All right, I agree. I won't destroy that town.

King James Version
And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

New American Standard Bible
He said to him, "Behold, I grant you this request also, not to overthrow the town of which you have spoken.

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

New King James Version
And he said to him, 'See, I have favored you concerning this thing also, in that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
He said to him, "Behold, I grant you this request also, not to overthrow the town of which you have spoken.

Revised Standard Version
He said to him, "Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

Young's Literal Translation
And he saith unto him, `Lo, I have accepted thy face also for this thing, without overthrowing the city `for' which thou hast spoken;


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