The Distance from Sodom to Zoar Measured by the Dawn

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 84:6

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"Whom else have you here?" (Genesis 19:12) (this is written in remez 44 [a cross-reference]). From the rising of dawn until sunrise is five mil [a measure of distance], as it is written, "And as the dawn rose" (Genesis 19:15), and it is written, "The sun had risen over the earth, and Lot came to Zoar" (Genesis 19:23). And Rabbi Chanin said: I myself saw that place, and it was five mil.

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