Holy Scripture

Genesis 19:28

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 28.) And behold, a flame was rising from the earth like the vapor of a furnace. Regarding this, we read in Hebrew: Behold, a rising (ἀναθυμίασις) of the furnace, which we can call vapor, smoke, or ashes.”
Jerome, 5th c. — Hebrew Questions on Genesis

Source: Septuagint

Original

28And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward the surrounding country, and saw, and behold a flame went up from the earth, as the smoke of a furnace.

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26And his wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

27And Abraham rose up early to go to the place, where he had stood before the Lord.

— Genesis 19:28 —

29And it came to pass that when God destroyed all the cities of the region round about, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when the Lord overthrew those cities in which Lot dwelt.

30And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, he and his two daughters with him, for he feared to dwell in Zoar; and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.

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