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Which five cities made up the biblical cities of the plain?
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Sodom and Gomorrah
Landscape with the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, oil on wood by Joachim Patinir, c. 1520; in the collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
In the biblical account found in the book of Genesis, the five "cities of the plain" are:
- Sodom
- Gomorrah
- Admah
- Zeboiim
- Zoar (also referred to as Bela)1