Genesis 19:22
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22 Hurry, escape there! I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” That is why the town is called Zoar.(A)
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Genesis 19:29
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29 When God destroyed the cities of the Plain, he remembered Abraham and sent Lot away from the upheaval that occurred when God overthrew the cities where Lot had been living.
Moabites and Ammonites.[a]
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- 19:30–38 This Israelite tale about the origin of Israel’s neighbors east of the Jordan and the Dead Sea was told partly to ridicule these ethnically related but rival nations and partly to give popular etymologies for their names. The stylized nature of the story is seen in the names of the daughters (“the firstborn” and “the younger”), the ease with which they fool their father, and the identical descriptions of the encounters.
2 Peter 2:7
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7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man oppressed by the licentious conduct of unprincipled people
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