Genesis 19:16-38 ▼

16 And he lingered, and the men took hold of his hand and of the hand of his wife and of the hand of his two daughters—YHWH being merciful to him—and they brought him out and set him outside of the city.

17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay in all the plain! Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed!”

18 And Lot said to them, “No, please, my lords!

19 Behold, please, your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have increased your kindness, which you have shown me by saving my life. And I am not able to escape to the mountains, lest the evil overtake me and I die.

20 Behold, please, this city is near to flee there, and it is a small place. Let me escape there, please. Is it not a small place? And my soul shall live!”

21 And he said to him, “Behold, I have sustained you also concerning this thing without overthrowing the city about which you have spoken.

22 Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Upon thus the name of the city was called Zoar.

23 When the sun had risen upon the earth and Lot had entered Zoar,

24 then YHWH rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from YHWH out of the heavens.

25 And He overthrew these cities, and all the plain, and all those dwelling in the cities, and what grew on the ground.

26 And his wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

27 And Abraham rose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood there before the face of YHWH.

28 And he looked toward the face of Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain, and he saw, and behold, smoke from the land went up like the smoke of the furnace.

29 And it came to pass when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.

30 And Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the mountains, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar. And he dwelt in the cave—he and his two daughters.

31 And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come in to us, as is the way of all the earth.

32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve the seed of our father.”

33 And they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

34 And it came to pass on the next day that the firstborn said to the younger, “Indeed, last night I lay with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve the seed of our father.”

35 And they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

36 And the two daughters of Lot conceived by their father.

37 And the firstborn bore a son, and she called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

38 And the younger, she also bore a son, and she called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day.