Genesis 19:26 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁶ But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a post of salt.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ But [Lot's] wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Common English Bible

²⁶ When Lot’s wife looked back, she turned into a pillar of salt.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ And his wife, looking behind herself, was turned into a statue of salt.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ And his wife looking behind her was turned into a statue of salt.

Genesis 19:26 Cross References

Genesis 19:17

And it came to be, when they had brought them outside, that he said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed.”

Proverbs 14:14

The backslider in heart is satisfied with his own ways, But a good man is satisfied from his.

Numbers 16:38

“The fire holders of these men who sinned against their own lives, let them be made into beaten plates as a covering for the slaughter-place. Because they brought them before יהוה, therefore they are set-apart. And let them become a sign to the children of Yisra’ĕl.”

Hebrews 10:38

“But the righteous shall live by belief, but if anyone draws back, my being has no pleasure in him.”