Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Genesis 19:24-38 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

24. and the Lord sent burning sulphur down like rain on Sodom and Gomorrah.

25. He destroyed those cities and everyone who lived in them, as well as their land and the trees and grass that grew there.

26. On the way, Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a block of salt.

27. That same morning Abraham got up and went to the place where he had stood and spoken with the Lord.

28. He looked down towards Sodom and Gomorrah and saw smoke rising from all over the land—it was like a flaming furnace.

29. When God destroyed the cities of the valley where Lot lived, he remembered his promise to Abraham and saved Lot from the terrible destruction.

30. Lot was afraid to stay on in Zoar. So he took his two daughters and moved to a cave in the hill country.

31. One day his elder daughter said to her sister, “Our father is old, and there are no men anywhere for us to marry.

32. Let's get our father drunk! Then we can sleep with him and have children.”

33. That night they got their father drunk, and the elder daughter got in bed with him, but he was too drunk even to know she was there.

34. The next day the elder daughter said to her sister, “I slept with my father last night. We'll get him drunk again tonight, so you can go to bed with him, and we can each have a child.”

35. That night they got their father drunk, and this time the younger sister slept with him. But once again he was too drunk even to know she was there.

36. That's how Lot's two daughters had their children.

37. The elder daughter named her son Moab, and he is the ancestor of the Moabites.

38. The younger daughter named her son Benammi, and he is the ancestor of the Ammonites.