Sodom Dissolved Like a Snail That Melts Away

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 84:10

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"And the LORD rained" (Genesis 19:24). "Like a snail that melts as it goes, like the untimely birth of a woman that has not seen the sun" (Psalms 58:9). Like this snail that is dissolved away in slime, like this mole that does not have time enough to see the sun before it returns to its dust.

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Divine PunishmentDestructionSymbolism

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