Lot's wife (Section 071)
Also known as: the wife of Lot · Role: wife of Lot · First appears: Abraham Pleads For The Sinners
Lot’s wife was included among those Abraham hoped would reach the number ten: Lot, his wife, their four daughters, and their daughters’ husbands. At Sodom, she betrayed the presence of guests in Lot’s house by telling a neighbor she had borrowed salt for them.
When the angels brought Lot and his family out before the city’s destruction, they were told to run for their lives. Lot’s wife looked behind her and became a pillar of salt.
Relationship record
Life events
- Lot's wife betrayed the presence of guests in Lot's house by revealing it to a neighbor.(The Destruction Of The Sinful Cities · 📍 Sodom)
- With: Lot
- “Nevertheless it was she who betrayed him. She went to a neighbor and borrowed some salt, and to the question, whether she could not have supplied herself with salt during daylight hours, she replied, ‘We had enough salt, until some guests came to us; for them we needed more.’”
- The angels brought Lot and his family out of the city before its destruction.(The Destruction Of The Sinful Cities · 📍 Sodom)
- With: Lot
- “When the angels had brought forth Lot and his family and set them without the city, he bade them run for their lives”
- Lot's wife looked behind her and became a pillar of salt.(The Destruction Of The Sinful Cities)
- “She beheld the Shekinah, and she became a pillar of salt.”
Abraham Pleads For The Sinners
- married with Lot “he hoped that Lot, his wife, and their four daughters, together with the husbands of their daughters, would make up the number ten.”
The Destruction Of The Sinful Cities
- married with Lot “At home he had to overcome the opposition of his wife, for she said, ‘If the inhabitants of Sodom hear of this, they will slay thee.’”
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Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume I. Made with Rho MD.