Genesis 13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. Sophronius, a wise teacher, would not suffer even his grown-up sons and daughters to associate with those whose conduct was not pure and upright. "Dear father," said the gentle Eulalia to him one day when he forbade her, in company with her brother, to visit the volatile Lucinda, "you must think us very childish if you imagine that we should be exposed to danger by it." The father took in silence a dead coal from the hearth, and reached it to his daughter. "It will not burn you, my child; take it." Eulalia did so, and behold her beautiful white hand was soiled and blackened, and, as it chanced, her white dress also. "You cannot be too careful in handling coals," said Eulalia, in vexation. "Yes, truly," said the father. "You see, my child, that coals, even if they do not burn, blacken; so it is with the company of the vicious." (From the German.) Parallel Verses KJV: But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.WEB: Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh. |
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