Motif
Blindness prevents violation of the threshold
blindness_prevents_violation_of_the_threshold
A motif of the Threshold Guardian family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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jewish christian
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Genesis Footnotes / Chapter 18 / Footnotes / Chapter 19; lines 1084-1164 confidence: medium
The visiting men pull Lot into the house, shut the door, and strike the men at the door with blindness so they cannot find it.
When the men press toward the door, the visitors pull Lot inside, close the door, and strike the men at the doorway with blindness so that they cannot find the door.
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