25. The Lord destroyed these cities, the entire valley, everyone who lived in the cities, and all of the fertile land’s vegetation.
26. When Lot’s wife looked back, she turned into a pillar of salt.
27. Abraham set out early for the place where he had stood with the Lord,
28. and looked out over Sodom and Gomorrah and over all the land of the valley. He saw the smoke from the land rise like the smoke from a kiln.
29. When God destroyed the cities in the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot away from the disaster that overtook the cities in which Lot had lived.
30. Since Lot had become fearful of living in Zoar, he and his two daughters headed up from Zoar and settled in the mountains where he and his two daughters lived in a cave.
31. The older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there are no men in the land to sleep with us as is the custom everywhere.