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Mount Sodom
Mount Sodom. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Mount Sodom (Hebrew: הר סדום, Har Sedom) is a hill along the southwestern part of the Dead Sea in Israel; it is part of the Judaean Desert Nature Reserve. It takes its name from the biblical city of Sodom, whose destruction is the subject of a narrative in the Bible.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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