When they had brought them outside, one said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the valley; escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away.”

Lot went up from Zoar, and stayed in the mountains, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; and he stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters.

Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over there; and we will worship and return to you.”

But her brother and her mother said, “Let the girl stay with us a few days, say ten; afterward she may go.”

The Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land of which I shall tell you.

Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury subsides,

Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than to give her to another man; stay with me.”

But Laban said to him, “If now it pleases you, stay with me; I have divined that the Lord has blessed me on your account.”