Commentaire sur La Genèse 19:30
וַיַּעַל֩ ל֨וֹט מִצּ֜וֹעַר וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב בָּהָ֗ר וּשְׁתֵּ֤י בְנֹתָיו֙ עִמּ֔וֹ כִּ֥י יָרֵ֖א לָשֶׁ֣בֶת בְּצ֑וֹעַר וַיֵּ֙שֶׁב֙ בַּמְּעָרָ֔ה ה֖וּא וּשְׁתֵּ֥י בְנֹתָֽיו׃
Loth monta de Çoar et s’établit dans la montagne avec ses deux filles, car il n’osait rester à Çoar; Il demeura dans une caverne, lui et ses deux filles.
Rashi on Genesis
כי ירא לשבת בצוער FOR HE FEARED TO DWELL IN ZOAR, because it was near to Sodom.
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Rashbam on Genesis
כי ירא לשבת בצוער, seeing the angel had spared the town only because there had not been time enough for Lot to escape to the mountain. Now that Lot could climb the mountain at his leisure, he was afraid to stay there longer than necessary.
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Ramban on Genesis
FOR HE FEARED TO DWELL IN ZOAR. Rashi wrote, “Because it was near to Sodom.”
This is not so.262For since the angel had assured Lot, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city [Zoar], (Verse 21), Zoar would no longer be in danger of destruction even though it was near Sodom. (Mizrachi.) Rather, since it was one of the places upon which destruction had originally been decreed and it was only by Lot’s supplication that the angel exempted it because Lot could not make his escape to the mountain on that day,263Verse 19 here. Lot now thought that the angel would no longer extend his request, for he now had sufficient time to make the escape to the mountain.264This was why he feared to dwell in Zoar. This was why his daughter said, And there is not a man in the earth,265Verse 31 here. for she thought that with her father’s departure from Zoar the city was destroyed.
This is not so.262For since the angel had assured Lot, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city [Zoar], (Verse 21), Zoar would no longer be in danger of destruction even though it was near Sodom. (Mizrachi.) Rather, since it was one of the places upon which destruction had originally been decreed and it was only by Lot’s supplication that the angel exempted it because Lot could not make his escape to the mountain on that day,263Verse 19 here. Lot now thought that the angel would no longer extend his request, for he now had sufficient time to make the escape to the mountain.264This was why he feared to dwell in Zoar. This was why his daughter said, And there is not a man in the earth,265Verse 31 here. for she thought that with her father’s departure from Zoar the city was destroyed.
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