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Genesis 19:17

וַ יְהִי כְ הֹוצִיאָם אֹתָם הַ חוּצָה וַ יֹּאמֶר הִמָּלֵט עַל נַפְשֶׁךָ אַל תַּבִּיט אַחֲרֶיךָ וְ אַל תַּעֲמֹד בְּ כָל הַ כִּכָּר הָ הָרָה הִמָּלֵט פֶּן תִּסָּפֶה

And he is becoming as their causing to go out אֶת-them the Outside-ward, that he is saying, `Escape upon your breath; do not cause to look your back, and do not set-upright in the whole of the Round.675 Escape the Mountain-ward, lest you are being swept-up.`676


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nor stand you in the whole of the round. In chapter 13 it was called “the round of the Jordan”. The messengers command Lot not to take a stand/remain anywhere in the “round” which is described in Genesis 13:10. Jesus speaks a parallel saying to three kinds of people:

Then those ones in Judea escape into the mountains, and those ones in the middle of herself withdraw, and those ones in the regions do not come into herself.” Luke 21:21 literal