And it happened, as they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar. And they lived there.

And there came one who had escaped. And he told Abram the Hebrew, for he lived in the plains of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. And these had a covenant with Abram.

And Jehovah appeared to him in the plains of Mamre, and he sat at the tent door in the heat of the day.

And it happened when they brought him outside, He said, Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, nor stay in all the plain. Escape to the mountain lest you be consumed.

And He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the lands of the plain, and saw, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

And when God destroyed the cities of the plain, it happened that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.