Genesis 19:22-38 ▼

22 Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the town was named Zoar.

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

24 Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah from the LORD out of heaven,

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

26 But Lot’s wife, from behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

27 Now Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the LORD;

28 and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the surrounding area; and behold, he saw the smoke of the land ascended like the smoke of a furnace.

29 So it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the surrounding area, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the destruction, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.

30 Now Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and stayed in the mountains, because 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 have relations with us according to the custom of all the earth.

32 Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and let’s sleep with him so that we may keep our family alive through our father.”

33 So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or got up.

34 On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I slept last night with my father; let’s make him drink wine tonight too, then you go in and sleep with him, so that we may keep our family alive through our father.”

35 So they had their father drink wine that night too, and the younger got up and slept with him; and he did not know when she lay down or got up.

36 And so both of the daughters of Lot conceived by their father.

37 The firstborn gave birth to a son, and named him Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

38 As for the younger, she also gave birth to a son, and named him Ben-ammi; he is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day.