Genesis 19:20-38 ▼

20 now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) that my life may be preserved.”

21 And he said to him, “Behold, I grant you this request also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

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

23 The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

24 And Yahweh rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh out of heaven,

25 and He overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

26 Then his wife, from behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

27 Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before Yahweh;

28 and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.

29 Thus it happened, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

30 And Lot went up from Zoar and stayed in the mountains, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; and he stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters.

31 Then the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of the earth.

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

33 So 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 Now it happened on the following day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; and you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve our seed through our father.”

35 So 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 Thus both the daughters of Lot conceived by their father.

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

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