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On Lot and Sodom

Angels visit a righteous man in a wicked city before destroying it. His wife looks back and turns into a pillar of salt.

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◆ Held in common

What every account tells.

  • iDestruction of cities
  • iiWarning of angels
◆ Where they part

How each tradition tells it.

Islam

The Quran identifies the people as transgressors but focuses on the rejection of the prophet Lot.


Side by side

Read the passages as one.

Each scripture’s own words, laid alongside the others.

Christianity19:1
Genesis
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

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