And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous.
But before they lay down, the men of the city, (even) the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
And he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;
As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.