Genesis 19:26-28
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26 But Lot’s wife never made it; she lagged behind her husband and looked back—despite the messenger’s advice—and turned into a pillar of salt.
Lot’s wife makes a fateful turn. She stops and looks back. No one knows why. Perhaps it is to mourn the past. Perhaps curiosity gets the better of her; but instead of looking ahead to her destination—a place of safety and security—she turns around and looks back at what she has left behind. In that instant, as the messenger warned, she perishes. All that is left of her is a standing pillar of salt.
27 Meanwhile, Abraham rose early in the morning and went out to the place where he had stood at the feet of the Eternal One. 28 He looked down toward where Sodom and Gomorrah had been. He looked up and down the valley, and everywhere he looked clouds of smoke were billowing up—black, like smoke from a giant furnace.
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Genesis 19:26-28
New International Version
26 But Lot’s wife looked back,(A) and she became a pillar of salt.(B)
27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord.(C) 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.(D)
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