¹⁷ And as they brought them out, one said, “Escape for your life. ^(A)Do not look back or stop anywhere in the ^(B)valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.”

²⁵ And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

²⁸ And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.

^3 (A)the Negeb, and ^(B)the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho ^(C)the city of palm trees, as far as ^(D)Zoar.

⁴⁶ In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between ^(A)Succoth and ^(B)Zarethan.

⁵ Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him,