Holman Christian Standard Bible

Genesis 19:21-38 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

21. And he said to him, “All right, I’ll grant your request about this matter too and will not demolish the town you mentioned.

22. Hurry up! Run there, for I cannot do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city is Zoar.

23. The sun had risen over the land when Lot reached Zoar.

24. Then out of the sky the Lord rained burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah from the Lord.

25. He demolished 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 demolished the cities where Lot had lived.

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.

36. So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.

37. The firstborn gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.

38. The younger also gave birth to a son, and she named him Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites of today.