Genesis 19:24-38

24Then the Lord rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the Lord.

25So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.

26But Lot’s wife looked back longingly and was turned into a pillar of salt.

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

28He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.

29So when God destroyed the cities of the region, God honored Abraham’s request. He removed Lot from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed the cities Lot had lived in.

30Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and settled in the mountains because he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.

31Later the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby to have sexual relations with us, according to the way of all the world.

32Come, let’s make our father drunk with wine so we can have sexual relations with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

33So that night they made their father drunk with wine, and the older daughter came and had sexual relations with her father. But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up.

34So in the morning the older daughter said to the younger, “Since I had sexual relations with my father last night, let’s make him drunk again tonight. Then you go and have sexual relations with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.”

35So they made their father drunk that night as well, and the younger one came and had sexual relations with him. But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up.

36In this way both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.

37The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the ancestor of the Moabites of today.

38The younger daughter also gave birth to a son and named him Ben-Ammi. He is the ancestor of the Ammonites of today.