²³ By the time Lot reached Zoar,^(A) the sun had risen over the land.

²⁴ Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur^(A) on Sodom and Gomorrah^(B)—from the Lord out of the heavens.^(C)

²⁷ Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord.^(A)

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.^(A)