¹² the border shall go down along the Jordan, and it shall end at ^(A)the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with its surrounding boundaries.’ ”

^3 (A)Your southern border shall be from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom; then your southern border shall extend eastward to the end of ^(B)the Salt Sea;

²⁴ Then the Lord rained ^(A)brimstone and ^(B)fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens. ²⁵ So He ^[a]overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and ^(C)what grew on the ground.

²⁶ But his wife looked back behind him, and she became ^(D)a pillar of salt.

³ All these joined together in the Valley of Siddim ^(A)(that is, the Salt Sea).

¹⁰ And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all ^(A)the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the Lord ^(B)destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) ^(C)like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go toward ^(D)Zoar.