25
He overthrew these cities, the entire plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and whatever grew on the ground.
26
But his wife looked back and became a pillar of salt.
27
Early in the morning Abraham went to the place where he had stood before the Lord.
28
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw that smoke was going up from the land like the smoke of a furnace.
29
So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham and brought Lot out of the middle of the upheaval when He overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
The Origin of Moab and Ammon
30 Lot departed from Zoar and lived in the mountains along with his two daughters, because he was afraid to live in Zoar. Instead, he and his two daughters lived in a cave.
31
Then the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us [as is] the custom of all the land.
32
Come, let's get our father to drink wine so that we can sleep with him and preserve our father's line."
33
So they got their father to drink wine that night, and the firstborn came and slept with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.
34
The next day the firstborn said to the younger, "Look, I slept with my father last night. Let's get him to drink wine again tonight so you can go sleep with him and we can preserve our father's line."
35
That night they again got their father to drink wine, and the younger went and slept with him; he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.