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Bible Verses About Sodom

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  1. And the border of the Canaanite is from Sidon, in thy coming towards Gerar, unto Gaza; in thy coming towards Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, unto Lasha.

  2. And Lot lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the whole circuit of the Jordan that it is all a watered country (before Jehovah's destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, as Jehovah's garden, as the land of Egypt,) in thy coming toward Zoar,

  3. Abram hath dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot hath dwelt in the cities of the circuit, and tenteth unto Sodom;

  4. and the men of Sodom are evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly.

  5. And it cometh to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goyim,

  6. they have made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.

  7. All these have been joined together unto the valley of Siddim, which is the Salt Sea;

  8. twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and the thirteenth year they rebelled.

  9. And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings who are with him, and they smite the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

  10. and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-Paran, which is by the wilderness;

  11. and they turn back and come in unto En-Mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smite the whole field of the Amalekite, and also the Amorite who is dwelling in Hazezon-Tamar.

  12. And the king of Sodom goeth out, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar; and they set the battle in array with them in the valley of Siddim,

  13. with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goyim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with the five.

  14. And the valley of Siddim is full of bitumen-pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah flee, and fall there, and those left have fled to the mountain.

  15. And they take the whole substance of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the whole of their food, and go away;

  16. and they take Lot, Abram's brother's son (seeing he is dwelling in Sodom), and his substance, and go away.

  17. And the men rise from thence, and look on the face of Sodom, and Abraham is going with them to send them away;

  18. and Jehovah said, `Am I concealing from Abraham that which I am doing,

  19. and Abraham certainly becometh a nation great and mighty, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth?

  20. for I have known him, that he commandeth his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of Jehovah), to do righteousness and judgment, that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.'

  21. And Jehovah saith, `The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah--because great; and their sin--because exceeding grievous:

  22. I go down now, and see whether according to its cry which is coming unto Me they have done completely--and if not--I know;'

  23. and the men turn from thence, and go towards Sodom; and Abraham is yet standing before Jehovah.

  24. And Abraham draweth nigh and saith, `Dost Thou also consume righteous with wicked?

  25. peradventure there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city; dost Thou also consume, and not bear with the place for the sake of the fifty--the righteous who are in its midst?