Genesis 19:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁰ Look, this town is close enough for me to flee to. It is a small place. Please let me run to it #– #it’s only a small place, isn’t it? #– #so that I can survive.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ See now yonder city; it is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh, let me escape to it! Is it not a little one? And my life will be saved!

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape thither (is it not a little one?), and my soul shall live.

Common English Bible

²⁰ This city here is close enough to flee to, and it’s small. It’s small, right? Let me escape there, and my life will be saved.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ There is a certain city nearby, to which I can flee; it is a little one, and I will be saved in it. Is it not a modest one, and will not my soul live?"

Genesis 19:20 Cross References

Genesis 12:13

Please say you’re my sister so it will go well for me because of you, and my life will be spared on your account.’

Genesis 19:19

Your servant has indeed found favour with you, and you have shown me great kindness by saving my life. But I can’t run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.

Genesis 19:21

And he said to him, ‘All right,  I’ll grant your request  about this matter too and will not demolish the town you mentioned.

Genesis 19:30

Lot departed from Zoar and lived in the mountains along with his two daughters, because he was afraid to live in Zoar. Instead, he and his two daughters lived in a cave.

Isaiah 55:3

Pay attention and come to me; listen, so that you will live. I will make a permanent covenant with you on the basis of the faithful kindnesses of David.  ,

Jeremiah 38:20

‘They will not hand you over,’ Jeremiah replied. ‘Obey the Lord in what I am telling you, so that it may go well for you and you can live.

Amos 3:6

If a ram’s horn  is blown in a city, aren’t people afraid? If a disaster  occurs in a city, hasn’t the Lord done it?