OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 26

Genesis 19:26

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But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

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Genesis 19:26 in context

Genesis 19:23–29

23

The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

24

Then the LORD rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of the sky.

25

He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

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But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

27

Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

28

He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

29

When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

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