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Behold, I have two daughters who have not known (had sexual relations with) any man; let me, I beg you, bring them out to you, and you can do what is good in your eyes with them; only do nothing to these men, since they have come under the shadow of my roof (are under my protection)."
And the men [the heavenly visitors] said to Lot, "Do you have anyone here, sons-in-law, your sons and your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of this place,
And Lot went out and spoke to his [future] sons-in-law who were to marry [had married] his daughters, saying, "Rev, get away from this place, for the Lord (Yahweh) is going to destroy the city." But he was like a man joking (teasing, mocking) to his sons-in-law.
[The Hebrew text is without tense. The Greek translation Septuagint translates it as "already married sons-in-law," which would refer to other daughters (than the two mentioned in ) who were already married, but since the daughters live with him, it is more likely that they are betrothed and the text refers to future sons-in-law (as translated in the Latin Vulgate). Regardless, the main point is that they did not listen and did not believe that he was serious. The same verb describes Sarah's response, see , , .]
And when morning dawned, the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the transgressions of the city."
But he [Lot] lingered, and the men took hold of his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, for the Lord (Yahweh) was merciful to him. And they brought him out and set him outside the city.
And Lot went up from
Zoar and dwelt in the mountains, he and his two daughters with him, for he was afraid to dwell in
Zoar, and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
The firstborn [older] said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth who will come in to us (take us as wives) in the ways of the earth (can mean "that no one will walk the paths that enable them to meet" or "in accordance with worldly traditions").
And they gave wine to their father that night [and made him drunk]. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
In the morning, the firstborn said to the younger, "Look, I lay with my father last night. Let us give him wine to drink tonight too, and you go in and lie with him, so that we may preserve our father's seed."
So both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father.
And the firstborn bore a son and named him Moab; he is the ancestor of the Moabites to this day. [The Moabites became a people who settled east of the Dead Sea in present-day Jordan; the name sounds like "from the father" in Hebrew.]
