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The Dead Sea is one of the most dramatic places on
earth and is referred to in the Bible by various names: the “Sea of Arabah”,
the “Salt Sea”, or the “Eastern Sea”. Mediaeval texts refer to it as “the
Devil’s Sea.” Interestingly, Arabs also know it as Bahr Lut, “Lot’s Sea”.
The infamous Sodom and Gomorrah, and other cities
of the Dead Sea Plain, were the subjects of some of the most dramatic stories
in the Old Testament. Soon after Abraham and his nephew, Lot, arrived in the
Dead Sea Plain, they separated their herds and people and went their own ways
(Genesis 13:1-13).
When God said he would destroy the cities of Sodom
and Gomorrah because of the inhabitant’s wicked and arrogant ways, Abraham
successfully argued with God that Lot and any other righteous people should be
spared. Lot and his two daughters survived and fled to a cave near the small
town of Zoar. The traditional site of this cave is in modern-day Safi.
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