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Lot and His Daughters

30 And Lot went out from Zoar and settled in the hill country[a] with his two daughters, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. So he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters. 31 And the firstborn daughter said to the younger one, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to come in to us according to the manner of all the land. 32 Come, let us give our father wine to drink and let us lie with him[b] that we may secure descendants through our father.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 19:30 Or “mountain”
  2. Genesis 19:32 Idiom for “have sexual intercourse with him”
  3. Genesis 19:32 Literally “that we might preserve offspring from our father”