Genesis 19:20 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁰ Behold, yonder city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there—is it not a little one?—and my life will be saved!”

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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?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ There is this city here at hand, to which I may flee. It is a little one, and I shall be saved in it. Is it not a little one, and my soul shall live?

Genesis 19:20 Cross References

Genesis 12:13

Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account.”

Genesis 19:19

behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life; but I cannot flee to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me, and I die.

Genesis 19:21

He said to him, “Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

Genesis 19:30

Now Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar; so he dwelt in a cave with his two daughters.

Psalm 119:175

Let me live, that I may praise thee, and let thy ordinances help me.

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.

Jeremiah 38:20

Jeremiah said, “You shall not be given to them. Obey now the voice of the Lord in what I say to you, and it shall be well with you, and your life shall be spared.

Amos 3:6

Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does evil befall a city, unless the Lord has done it?