Commentary on Genesis John Calvin
JOHN CALVIN
21. And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
21. Et dixit ad eum, Ecce, suscepi faciem tuam etiam in hoc, ut non suvbertam civitatem, ut loquutus es.
22. Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
22. Festina, serva to illuc: quia non potero facere quicquam, donec ingrediaris illuc: idcirco vocavit nomen civitatis Sohar.
23. The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
23. Sol egressus est super terram, et Lot ingressus est Sohar.
24. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
24. Et Jehova pluit super Sedom et super Hamorah sulphur et ignem a Jehova e coelis.
25. And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
25. Et subvertit civitates istas, et omnem planitiem, et omnes habitatores urbium, et germen terrae.
26. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
26. Et respexit uxor ejus post eum, et effecta est statua salis.
27. And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:
27. Et surrexit Abraham mane ad locum, ubi steterat coram Jehova.
28. And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
28. Et respexit super faciem Sedom et Hamorah, et super omnem faciem terrae planitiei: et videt, et ecce, ascendebat fumus terrae sicut fumus fornacis.