Genesis 19:30-38

Good News Translation

The Origin of the Moabites and Ammonites

³⁰ Because Lot was afraid to stay in Zoar, he and his two daughters moved up into the hills and lived in a cave. ³¹ The older daughter said to her sister, “Our father is getting old, and there are no men in the whole world^[a] to marry us so that we can have children. ³² Come on, let's get our father drunk, so that we can sleep with him and have children by him.” ³³ That night they gave him wine to drink, and the older daughter had intercourse with him. But he was so drunk that he didn't know it.

³⁴ The next day the older daughter said to her sister, “I slept with him last night; now let's get him drunk again tonight, and you sleep with him. Then each of us will have a child by our father.” ³⁵ So that night they got him drunk, and the younger daughter had intercourse with him. Again he was so drunk that he didn't know it. ³⁶ In this way both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their own father. ³⁷ The older daughter had a son, whom she named Moab.^[b] He was the ancestor of the present-day Moabites. ³⁸ The younger daughter also had a son, whom she named Benammi.^[c] He was the ancestor of the present-day Ammonites.