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Genesis 19:17

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19:17 When they had brought them outside, they 1  said, “Run 2  for your lives! Don’t look 3  behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! 4  Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”

Genesis 19:30

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19:30 Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and settled in the mountains because he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.

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[19:17]  1 tn Or “one of them”; Heb “he.” Several ancient versions (LXX, Vulgate, Syriac) read the plural “they.” See also the note on “your” in v. 19.

[19:17]  2 tn Heb “escape.”

[19:17]  3 tn The Hebrew verb translated “look” signifies an intense gaze, not a passing glance. This same verb is used later in v. 26 to describe Lot’s wife’s self-destructive look back at the city.

[19:17]  4 tn Or “in the plain”; Heb “in the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.



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