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23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
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By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.
24 Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of heaven.
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Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
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Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.
26 But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
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But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
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Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
28 And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.
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He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
29 So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.
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So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
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