Genesis 14:10
וְ עֵמֶק הַ שִׂדִּים בֶּאֶרֹת בֶּאֶרֹת חֵמָר וַ יָּנֻסוּ מֶלֶךְ סְדֹם וַ עֲמֹרָה וַ יִּפְּלוּ שָׁמָּה וְ הַ נִּשְׁאָרִים הֶרָה נָּסוּ
And the valley of the Fields is wells wells of tar.533 And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah are escaping, and falling534 there-ward, and the Remnant535 mountain-ward have escaped.536
| 533 | wells wells of tar. Hebre בֶּֽאֱרֹ֤ת בֶּאֱרֹת֙. Word for “well” in plural is repeated. Taken to mean full of tar pits by other translators. Although “two pits” for “two cities” also makes sense. Hebrew doesn’t make a distinction between “pit” and “well”. Hinting at the location of the Tower of Babel which was built using tar/bitumen in Genesis 11. |