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The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

Genesis 19:25

In 11 translations

BSB
Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.
KJV
And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
WEB
He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
ASV
and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
LSV
and He overthrows these cities, and all the circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which is shooting up from the ground.
YLT
and He overthroweth these cities, and all the circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which is shooting up from the ground.
DBY
and overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew upon the ground.
DRC
And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth.
GNV
And ouerthrewe those cities and all the plaine, and all the inhabitants of the cities; and that that grewe vpon the earth.
JPS
and He overthrow those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
LXXE
And he overthrew these cities, and all the country round about, and all that dwelt in the cities, and the plants springing out of the ground.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַֽיַּהֲפֹךְ֙ אֶת־הֶעָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔ל וְאֵ֖ת כָּל־הַכִּכָּ֑ר וְאֵת֙ כָּל־יֹשְׁבֵ֣י הֶעָרִ֔ים וְצֶ֖מַח הָאֲדָמָֽה׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ κατέστρεψε τὰς πόλεις ταύτας, καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν περίχωρον, καὶ πάντας τοὺς κατοικοῦντας ἐν ταῖς πόλεσι, καὶ τὰ ἀνατέλλοντα ἐκ τῆς γῆς.

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◆ Sodom Destroyed

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
  • Genesis 14:3The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
  • Genesis 13:10And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

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