Genesis 19:19-21

New Catholic Bible

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.”

²¹ He answered, “Behold, I will grant you even this, that I will not destroy the city of which you have spoken.