Genesis 19:22-38 ▼

22 hurry, escape there, for I am not able to do anything until your entering there”; therefore he calls the name of the city Zoar.

23 The sun has gone out on the earth, and Lot has entered into Zoar,

24 and YHWH has rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah brimstone and fire from YHWH, from the heavens;

25 and He overthrows these cities, and all the circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which is shooting up from the ground.

26 And his wife looks from behind him, and she becomes a pillar of salt!

27 And Abraham rises early in the morning to the place where he has stood [before] the face of YHWH;

28 and he looks on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the face of the land of the circuit, and sees, and behold, the smoke of the land went up as smoke of the furnace.

29 And it comes to pass, in God’s destroying the cities of the circuit, that God remembers Abraham, and sends Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in the overthrowing of the cities in which Lot dwelt.

30 And Lot goes up out of Zoar, and dwells in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he has been afraid of dwelling in Zoar, and he dwells in a cave, he and his two daughters.

31 And the firstborn says to the younger, “Our father [is] old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us, as [is] the way of all the earth;

32 come, we cause our father to drink wine, and lie with him, and preserve a seed from our father.”

33 And they cause their father to drink wine on that night; and the firstborn goes in and lies with her father, and he has not known in her lying down or in her rising up.

34 And it comes to pass, on the next day, that the firstborn says to the younger, “Behold, I have lain with my father last night: we also cause him to drink wine tonight, then go in, lie with him, and we preserve a seed from our father.”

35 And they cause their father to drink wine on that night also, and the younger rises and lies with him, and he has not known in her lying down or in her rising up.

36 And the two daughters of Lot conceive from their father,

37 and the firstborn bears a son and calls his name Moab: he [is] father of Moab to this day.

38 As for the younger, she has also born a son and calls his name Ben-Ammi: he [is] father of the sons of Ammon to this day.