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19 Now behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindness, which you have shown me by preserving my life; but I cannot escape to the [a]mountains, lest calamity overtake me and I die; 20 now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) [b]that my life may be preserved.” 21 And he said to him, “Behold, I grant you this [c]request also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

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  1. Genesis 19:19 Lit mountain
  2. Genesis 19:20 Lit and my soul will live
  3. Genesis 19:21 Lit thing