“And the Lord rained down brimstone and fire upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah from the Lord, from the heavens” (Genesis 19:24). “And the Lord rained down brimstone and fire upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah…” – it is written: “Let them be like snails that melt away as they go along, like a nefel mole [eshet],1A kind of subterranean animal. which has never seen the sun…” (Psalms 58:9). Like this kilei-silei, a snail, like a slug that dissolves into refuse, like a mole that does not have a chance to see the sun before it returns to the earth, like a married woman [eshet ish] who committed adultery, who is ashamed to show her fetus and casts it away at night before it sees the sun.
That is what is written: “The sun rose upon the earth and Lot came to Tzoar” (Genesis 19:23).2The people of Sodom also did not see the sun, but were annihilated at sunrise.