Genesis 14:10
And the valley of the Demons is wells wells of tar.533 And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah are testing, and they are falling534 that place-hers, and the Remaining Ones535 into a mountain of herself have vanished.536
Footnote:
| 533 | valley of the Demons....pit wells pit wells of tar. Hebrew בארת בארת. The word for “pit-well” in plural is repeated. Interpreted to mean full of tar pits by other translators. Although “two pits” for “two cities” also makes sense. Hinting at the location of the Tower of Babel which was built using tar/bitumen in Genesis 11. The Hebrew word שדים (shadim) is interpreted as "demons" or "evil spirits" in biblical and post-biblical texts. The term appears in Deuteronomy 32:17 and Psalm 106:37, where it refers to malevolent spirits. In later Jewish tradition, שדים came to represent a class of supernatural beings, sometimes thought to inhabit desolate places. In biblical Hebrew, שדים can be confused with שד (shad), which means "breast" and also שדה which means "field." |