Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionAnd he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
F.O.G.Secondary
The F.O.GHe looked out over Sedom and Amorah and over all the land of the Plain, and he looked — and behold! — the smoke of the land was rising like the smoke of a furnace.
F.O.G.M.
F.O.G MessageHe gazed out over Sodom and Gomorrah and across the whole plain below — and saw dense smoke rising from the land like the smoke from a great furnace.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleHe looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
Footnotes
כְּקִיטֹר הַכִּבְשָׁן (k'kitor ha-kivshan) — "like the smoke of a furnace/kiln." This precise image recurs at Gen 15:17, where a smoking furnace (תַּנּוּר עָשָׁן) passes between the covenant pieces in Avraham's great covenant ceremony. The echo is haunting: the fire-and-smoke that once sealed YHWH's covenant-promise to Abraham now consumes the plain that could not keep it. Abraham watches the answer to his own intercession.
