69 The disjunctive clause signals the beginning of the next scene and highlights God’s action.
70 Or “burning sulfur” (the traditional “fire and brimstone”).
71 Heb “from the Lord from the heavens.” The words “It was sent down” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. The text explicitly states that the sulfur and fire that fell on Sodom and Gomorrah was sent down from the sky by the Lord. What exactly this was, and how it happened, can only be left to intelligent speculation, but see J. P. Harland, “The Destruction of the Cities of the Plain,” 6 (1943): 41–54.

In other versions

Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens.

Then out of the sky the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah burning sulfur from the Lord.

Then the Lord rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah.

Yahweh rained down from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh.

Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;

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