“Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.