²⁴ Then the Lord ^(A)rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven, ²⁵ and ^(B)He overthrew those cities, and all the ^[a]valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. ²⁶ But his wife, from behind him, ^(C)looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

²⁷ Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went to ^(D)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 ^[b]valley, and he saw, and behold, ^(E)the smoke of the land ascended like the smoke of a ^[c]furnace.

¹⁵ Truly I say to you, ^(A)it will be more tolerable for the land of ^(B)Sodom and Gomorrah in ^(C)the day of judgment than for that city.

²⁴ Nevertheless I say to you that ^(A)it will be more tolerable for the land of ^(B)Sodom in the day of judgment, than for you.”