Genesis 19:30-38

Evangelical Heritage Version

Lot and His Daughters

³⁰ Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the mountains, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. His two daughters were with him. He lived in a cave with his two daughters. ³¹ The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the land to come to us as normally takes place everywhere on earth. ³² Come on, let’s get our father to drink wine, and we will lie down with him, that we may preserve our father’s seed.”^{[a] 33} They got their father to drink wine that night, and the firstborn went and lay down with her father. He did not know it when she lay down or when she got up.

³⁴ Then the next day the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, last night I lay down with my father. Let us get him to drink wine again tonight. You go and lie down with him, so that we may preserve our father’s seed.” ³⁵ They got their father to drink wine that night also. Then the younger went and lay with him. He did not know it when she lay down or when she got up. ³⁶ In this way both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.

³⁷ The firstborn gave birth to a son and named him Moab.^[b] He is the father of the Moabites to this day. ³⁸ The younger also gave birth to a son and called his name Ben Ammi.^[c] He is the father of the people of Ammon to this day.