23. Lot was entering the town as the sun came up,
24. and the Lord began to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. He caused fire and burning sulfur to fall from the sky.
25. He destroyed the whole valley—all the cities, the people living in the cities, and all the plants in the valley.
26. Lot’s wife was following behind him and looked back at the city. When she did, she became a block of salt.
27. Early the next morning, Abraham got up and went to the place where he stood before the Lord.
28. Abraham looked down into the valley toward the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. He saw clouds of smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
29. God destroyed the cities in the valley, but he remembered what Abraham had said. So God sent Lot away from those cities before destroying them.
30. Lot was afraid to stay in Zoar, so he and his two daughters went to live in the mountains in a cave.
31. One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Everywhere on the earth, men and women marry and have a family. But our father is old, and there are no men around here to give us children.
32. So let’s get our father drunk with wine. Then we can have sex with him. That way we can use our father to keep our family alive!”
33. That night the two girls went to their father and got him drunk with wine. Then the older daughter went and had sexual relations with him. He did not even know when she came to bed or when she got up.
34. The next day the older daughter said to the younger daughter, “Last night I went to bed with my father. Let’s get him drunk with wine again tonight. Then you can go and have sex with him. In this way we can use our father to have children, and our family will not come to an end.”
35. So that night the two girls got their father drunk with wine. Then the younger daughter went and had sexual relations with him. Again, Lot did not know when she came to bed or when she got up.
36. Both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant. Their father was the father of their babies.
37. The older daughter gave birth to a son. She named him Moab. Moab is the ancestor of all the Moabites living today.
38. The younger daughter also gave birth to a son. She named him Ben-Ammi. Ben-Ammi is the ancestor of all the Ammonites living today.