ECB(i)
13 for we ruin this place: because their cry greatens at the face of Yah Veh; and Yah Veh sends us to ruin it.
14 And Lot goes and words to his in laws who took his daughters, and says, Rise, get from this place: for Yah Veh ruins this city! - but he seems as one who ridicules in the eyes of his in laws.
15 And as the dawn ascends, the angels hasten Lot, saying, Rise, take your woman and your two daughters whom you find; lest you be scraped away in the perversity of the city.
16 And he lingers and the men uphold his hand and the hand of his woman and the hand of his two daughters; Yah Veh being compassionate to him: and they bring him and set him outside the city.
17 And so be it, when he brings them out, he says, Escape for your soul; neither look behind you, nor stay in all the environs! Escape to the mountain, lest you be scraped away.
18 And Lot says to them, Oh I beseech, not so, my adonim:
19 behold I beseech, your servant found charism in your eyes and you greatened your mercy, which you worked to me in preserving my soul alive; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil adhere and I die:
20 behold, I beseech, this city is near to flee to and it is a little one: I beseech, that I escape thither, - is it not a little one? and my soul lives.
21 And he says to him, Behold, I spare your face concerning this word also, that I not overturn this city for which you word.
22 Hasten! Escape thither! for I can work no word until you come there - so they call the name of the city Soar.
23 The sun rises on the earth and Lot enters Soar:
24 and Yah Veh rains sulphur and fire on Sedom and on Amorah from Yah Veh from the heavens;
25 and he overturns those cities and all the environs; and all who settle the cities and all that sprouts on the soil: