¹² and the boundary shall go down to the Jordan, and its end shall be at the Dead Sea.^[a] This shall be your land with its boundaries all around.”

³ your south sector shall extend from the wilderness of Zin along the side of Edom. Your southern boundary shall begin from the end of the Dead Sea^[a] on the east;^(A)

²⁴ Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven,^{(A) 25} and he overthrew those cities and all the plain and all the inhabitants of the cities and what grew on the ground.^{(B) 26} But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.^(C)

³ All these joined forces in the Valley of Siddim, that is, the Dead Sea.^[a](A)

¹⁰ Lot looked about him and saw that the plain of the Jordan was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar; this was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.^(A)