Lot lifted his eyes and saw the whole plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered, before Hashem destroyed Sodom and Amorah, like the garden of Hashem, like the land of Egypt, as you come to Tzoar.
English of Core Text: R. Yochanan said: this entire verse is spoken in the language of transgression — “Lot lifted his eyes” like “his master’s wife lifted her eyes”; “and he saw” like “Shechem saw her”…
On the daf / in context: The derasha reads Lot’s choice of the plain through the lens of later (and earlier) biblical scenes of improper looking, foreshadowing the moral character of Sodom.
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Lot’s gaze is already marked as problematic by the very wording Chazal compare to other scenes of illicit desire.