Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. —Jude 1:7
"…therefore, Lot, not finding ten righteous men in the cities of the plain, fled with his wife and family as demons walked the streets at night, breaking doors, taking all found therein beneath the city to increase their numbers – and the three masked angels who once received the hospitality of Abraham and Sarah and then of Lot and his family, carried out Yawwah's will, and Sodom and Gomorrah and two other cities of the plain fell beneath a rain of fire with a sound that was not a sound, so loud did it echo across the heavens, causing the earth to shake and mountains to crumble, consuming all therein, demon and man alike beneath four trees of fire.
And Lot's wife, though warned against it, turned and faced the four burning cities of the plain, turning to ash white as salt as her chest burst forth in water and blood, a pillar to stand amidst what is now barren desert where once grazed cattle and sheep upon the green grasses of the plain where the Jordan River flows and four cities once stood arrogant…"
(Recently translated fragment from a hitherto unknown version of Genesis discovered during excavations in Xinjiang, a western province of China along the Silk Road near the desert city of Urumchi.)
