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

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

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Footnotes

tthe whole world; or this land.
umoab: This name sounds like the Hebrew for “from my father”.
vbenammi: This name in Hebrew means “son of my relative” and sounds like the Hebrew for “Ammonite”.