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The Story of Sodom and Gomorrah—
Lot's Family's Mostly Unsuccessful Attempt to Avoid Being Raped and Killed

July 15, 2020Bible storiesangels, anomalous weather, blindness, caves, death, destruction, disasters, escape, evil, failure, family, fire, god, homosexuality, incest, lot, massacres, misunderstanding, morality, overreaction, punishment, rape, rescue, sodom and gomorrah, transformation, violence, wineR. A. Absalom

Abraham’s nephew Lot was a righteous man. He lived in the city of Sodom, where nearly everyone was so wicked that God decided to kill them all.1 So God sent two angels (who looked like men) to Sodom. Lot met them and convinced them to spend the night at his house.

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