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Genesis 19:21-34 Modern English Version (MEV)

21. He said to him, “I have granted your request in this matter also. I will not overthrow this city of which you have spoken.

22. Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

23. The sun had risen over the land when Lot entered Zoar.

24. Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was from the Lord out of heaven.

25. So He overthrew those cities, all the valley, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

26. But his wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

27. Now Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he stood before the Lord.

28. Then he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley, and he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace.

29. So it was that when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the destruction, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

30. Then Lot left Zoar, and lived in the mountains, along with his two daughters who were with him, for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.

31. And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to have relations with us after the manner of all the earth.

32. Let us make our father drink wine and let us lie with him, so that we may preserve the lineage of our father.”

33. So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and had relations with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

34. On the next day the firstborn said to the younger, “Indeed, last night I had relations with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also, so that you may go in and have relations with him, so that we may preserve the lineage of our father.”

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