Lot’s guests pulled him in and shut the door—the reader may hear an echo of the ark’s door being shut—and inflicted the men of the town with temporary blindness. Salt deposits in the lower Dead Sea basin near the location of Sodom and Gomorrah. The visitors then persuaded Lot to leave Sodom. Though they were instructed not to look back, Mrs. Lot could not resist and immediately was turned into a condiment. As the sun came up, Abraham stood where he had spoken to Yahweh and watched the smoke rise