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Genesis 19:26

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19:26 But Lot’s 1  wife looked back longingly 2  and was turned into a pillar of salt.

Genesis 24:64

Context
24:64 Rebekah looked up 3  and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel

1 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Lot) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

2 tn The Hebrew verb means “to look intently; to gaze” (see 15:5).

sn Longingly. Lot’s wife apparently identified with the doomed city and thereby showed lack of respect for God’s provision of salvation. She, like her daughters later, had allowed her thinking to be influenced by the culture of Sodom.

3 tn Heb “lifted up her eyes.”



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