Quotes about Genesis
“Please, my brothers,” he pleaded, “don’t do such a wicked thing!
- Genesis 19:7
But the men inside reached out, pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
- Genesis 19:10
But Lot replied, “No, my lords, please!
- Genesis 19:18
Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.
- Genesis 19:19
“Very well,” he answered, “I will grant this request as well, and will not demolish the town you indicate.
- Genesis 19:21
Hurry! Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.” That is why the town was called Zoar.
- Genesis 19:22
And by the time the sun had risen over the land, Lot had reached Zoar.
- Genesis 19:23
Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
- Genesis 19:24
Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.
- Genesis 19:25
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
- Genesis 19:28
So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
- Genesis 19:29
Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains—for he was afraid to stay in Zoar—where they lived in a cave.
- Genesis 19:30