^8 (A)See now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish; only do nothing to these men, ^(B)since this is the reason they have come under the shadow of my roof.”

^24 (A)Look, here is my virgin daughter and ^[a]the man’s concubine; let me bring them out now. ^(B)Humble them, and do with them as you please; but to this man do not do such a vile thing!”

³¹ Now the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth ^(A)to come in to us as is the custom of all the earth. ³² Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we ^(B)may preserve the ^[a]lineage of our father.” ³³ So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

³⁴ It happened on the next day that the firstborn said to the younger, “Indeed I lay with my father last night; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve the ^[b]lineage of our father.” ³⁵ Then they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

³⁶ Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father. ³⁷ The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; ^(C)he is the father of the Moabites to this day. ³⁸ And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi; ^(D)he is the father of the people of Ammon to this day.

⁸ And why not say, ^(A)“Let us do evil that good may come”?—as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their ^[a]condemnation is just.

⁶ because he did not know what to say, for they were greatly afraid.

²² So Aaron said, “Do not let the anger of my lord become hot. ^(A)You know the people, that they are set on evil.

³⁷ Then Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you; put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you.”