21. So He said to him, “Behold, I will grant your request concerning this matter too—not to demolish the city of which you have spoken.
22. Hurry! Flee to safety there, because I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” (This is why the town is named Zoar.)
23. The moment the sun rose upon the land, Lot entered Zoar,
24. and Adonai rained sulfur and fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah from Adonai out of the sky.
25. So He demolished these cities and the whole surrounding area, all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation of the ground.
26. But his wife looked behind him and she turned into a pillar of salt.
27. Now Abraham rose early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Adonai,
28. and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward the entire land of the surrounding area, and saw, behold, the smoke of the land ascended like smoke from a furnace.
29. So it was, as God destroyed the cities of the surrounding area, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the upheaval, when He demolished the cities where Lot had dwelt.
30. Then Lot went up from Zoar and dwelled on the mountain, his two daughters with him, because he was afraid to dwell in Zoar. So he lived in a cave—he and his two daughters.
31. Then the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to come to us as is the custom of the whole land.
32. Come on! Let’s make our father drink wine so that we can lie with him and keep the seed from our father alive.
33. So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn came and lay down with her father. Yet he did not know that she lay down and got up.
34. On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, “See! I slept with my father last night. Let’s make him drink wine tonight as well. Come on! Sleep with him so that we’ll keep the seed from our father alive.”