26 But Lot’s wife looked back,(A) and she became a pillar of salt.(B)

27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord.(C) 28 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.(D)

29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain,(E) he remembered(F) Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe(G) that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.(H)

Lot and His Daughters

30 Lot and his two daughters left Zoar(I) and settled in the mountains,(J) for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.

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26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:

28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

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

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