Genesis 19:22-38 ▼

22 Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there.| Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

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

24 Then God rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the sky.

25 He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

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

27 Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before God.

28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and he saw; and look, the smoke was rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.

29 It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

30 Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.

31 The firstborn said to the younger, |Our father is old, and there is not a man in the land to sleep with us according to the custom of all the land.

32 Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will sleep with him, that we may preserve our family through our father.|

33 They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and slept with her father. He did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

34 It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, |Look, I slept last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's family.|

35 They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and slept with him. He did not know when she lay down, nor when she got up.

36 Thus both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father.

37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.

38 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the people of Ammon to this day.