²³ By the time Lot reached Zoar,^(A) the sun had risen over the land. ²⁴ Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur^(B) on Sodom and Gomorrah^(C)—from the Lord out of the heavens.^{(D) 25} Thus he overthrew those cities^(E) and the entire plain,^(F) destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.^{(G) 26} But Lot’s wife looked back,^(H) and she became a pillar of salt.^(I)

²⁷ Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord.^{(J) 28} He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.^(K)

²⁹ So when God destroyed the cities of the plain,^(L) he remembered^(M) Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe^(N) that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.^(O)

Lot and His Daughters

³⁰ Lot and his two daughters left Zoar^(P) and settled in the mountains,^(Q) for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. ³¹ One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth. ³² Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line^(R) through our father.”^(S)

³³ That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.^(T)

³⁴ The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.”^{(U) 35} So they got their father to drink wine^(V) that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.^(W)

³⁶ So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.^{(X) 37} The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab^[a];^(Y) he is the father of the Moabites^(Z) of today. ³⁸ The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi^[b]; he is the father of the Ammonites^[c](AA) of today.