Genesis 19:18-20

New Catholic Bible

¹⁸ But Lot replied, “No, my lord! ¹⁹ Look, your servant has found favor in your sight, and now you have shown even greater mercy to me by saving my life. Yet, I will not be able to flee to the mountains to keep the disaster from overtaking me. I will die. ²⁰ Look at this city ahead. It is close enough for me to reach, and it is so small! Let me flee there. It is such a small place. That way my life will be saved.”