The Origin of Moab and Ammon

³⁰ Later on, Lot and his two daughters abandoned Zoar and settled in the hills because Lot was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived there in a cave, along with his two daughters. ³¹ One day the firstborn told the younger one, “Our father is old, and there’s no man in the land to have sex with us,^[a] as everybody else throughout all the earth does. ³² Come on! Let’s make our father drink wine, and then we’ll have sex with him so we can preserve our father’s lineage.”

³³ So they had their father drink wine that night, and the older one had sexual relations with her father, but he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up. ³⁴ The next day the firstborn told the younger one, “Look! I had sex with my father last night. Let’s make him drink wine tonight again as well. Then you have sex with him, too. That way we’ll preserve our father’s lineage.” ³⁵ So they made their father drink wine that night as well, so he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

³⁶ That’s how both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. ³⁷ The firstborn gave birth to a son and named him Moab,^[b] and he is the ancestor of the Moabites to this day. ³⁸ The younger daughter also gave birth to a son and named him Ben-ammi,^[c] and he is the ancestor of the Ammonites to this day.