¹⁵ With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away^(A) when the city is punished.^(B)”

¹⁶ When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters^(C) and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them.^{(D) 17} As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives!^(E) Don’t look back,^(F) and don’t stop anywhere in the plain!^(G) Flee to the mountains^(H) or you will be swept away!”

²³ By the time Lot reached Zoar,^(A) the sun had risen over the land. ²⁴ Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur^(B) on Sodom and Gomorrah^(C)—from the Lord out of the heavens.^{(D) 25} Thus he overthrew those cities^(E) and the entire plain,^(F) destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.^{(G) 26} But Lot’s wife looked back,^(H) and she became a pillar of salt.^(I)

²⁷ Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord.^{(J) 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.^(K)

²⁹ So when God destroyed the cities of the plain,^(L) he remembered^(M) Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe^(N) that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.^(O)