Genesis 19:24-38

24Then the Lord poured sulphur that was on fire down on Sodom and Gomorrah. It fell from the sky like rain.

25In that way God destroyed those cities and everything in the valley. He killed all the people who lived in those cities. And he killed all the plants that grew on the land.

26But as they ran away, Lot's wife looked back at the city. When she did that, she became a large piece of salt, like a pillar.

27Early in the morning, Abraham returned to the place where he had spoken with the Lord.

28He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah and the whole valley. He saw thick dark smoke that was rising from the land. It was the smoke from a big fire.

29When God destroyed the cities of the valley, he saved Lot from that punishment. God remembered what Abraham had asked him. He took Lot away from the cities where he had lived. Then God destroyed those cities.

30Lot was afraid to live in Zoar. So he took his two daughters and they went up into the mountains. They lived together in a cave.

31One day, the older daughter said to her sister, ‘Our father is now old. There are no men who live near here, so there is nobody to marry us. We cannot have sex like everyone on the earth wants to do.

32So we should give our father much wine to drink. When he becomes drunk, we will have sex with him. Then our father's family will continue to have descendants.’

33That night they caused their father to become drunk with wine. The older daughter had sex with him. Lot was very drunk. He did not know when she came to him. And he did not know when she left him.

34The next day the older daughter said to her younger sister, ‘Last night I had sex with my father. We should make him drunk with wine again tonight. Then you can have sex with him. As a result, our father's family will continue.’

35So that night, they caused their father to become drunk again. The younger daughter had sex with her father. He did not know when she came to him. And he did not know when she left him.

36In that way, Lot caused both of his daughters to become pregnant.

37The older daughter gave birth to a son. She called him Moab. He became the ancestor of the Moabites.

38The younger daughter also gave birth to a son. She called him Ben-Ammi. He became the ancestor of the Ammonites.