Now Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters. And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
The next day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also. Then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” So they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father. The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day. The younger also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites to this day.
Comment: We are told what happened but not why it happened. When the ‘angels’ told Lot to flee Sodom his daughters’ ‘betrothed’ were not prepared to leave their bi-sexual way of life and died. So lot’s daughters, living in a nearby town and knowing no one, and certainly ‘no one’ up to their family’s standard (they were after all the top of the wealthy), could see the end of the family dynasty! So we (they planned) will get daddy drunk enough so that he doesn’t know what he’s doing, but not drunk enough that he goes to sleep on us. Neither the Moabites nor the Ammonites show up very well in Bible history, although Ruth a Moabite woman is listed in the progenitors of Jesus. The Bible doesn’t gloss over the nasty stories. In fact God uses them to call us to a different ‘holy’ way.
Prayer: Help me to walk with integrity, prepared to confess my sin, and strong enough to rise again with Your help to walk in Your way.
As I read it! 