22. Hurry, escape there! I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” That is why the town is called Zoar.
23. The sun had risen over the earth when Lot arrived in Zoar,
24. and the Lord rained down sulfur upon Sodom and Gomorrah, fire from the Lord out of heaven.
25. He overthrew those cities and the whole Plain, together with the inhabitants of the cities and the produce of the soil.
26. But Lot’s wife looked back, and she was turned into a pillar of salt.
27. The next morning Abraham hurried to the place where he had stood before the Lord.
28. As he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and the whole region of the Plain, he saw smoke over the land rising like the smoke from a kiln.
29. When God destroyed the cities of the Plain, he remembered Abraham and sent Lot away from the upheaval that occurred when God overthrew the cities where Lot had been living.
30. Since Lot was afraid to stay in Zoar, he and his two daughters went up from Zoar and settled in the hill country, where he lived with his two daughters in a cave.
31. The firstborn said to the younger: “Our father is getting old, and there is not a man in the land to have intercourse with us as is the custom everywhere.
32. Come, let us ply our father with wine and then lie with him, that we may ensure posterity by our father.”
33. So that night they plied their father with wine, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; but he was not aware of her lying down or getting up.
34. The next day the firstborn said to the younger: “Last night I lay with my father. Let us ply him with wine again tonight, and then you go in and lie with him, that we may ensure posterity by our father.”
35. So that night, too, they plied their father with wine, and then the younger one went in and lay with him; but he was not aware of her lying down or getting up.
36. Thus the two daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.
37. The firstborn gave birth to a son whom she named Moab, saying, “From my father.” He is the ancestor of the Moabites of today.
38. The younger one, too, gave birth to a son, and she named him Ammon, saying, “The son of my kin.” He is the ancestor of the Ammonites of today.