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Lot left Zoar and retired with his two daughters to a cave in an adjacent mountain. In Gen. 19:30-38, Lot's daughters incorrectly believed they were the only females to have survived the devastation. They assumed it was their responsibility to bear children and enable the continuation of the human race. On two subsequent nights, according to the plan of the older daughter, they got their father drunk enough to have sexual intercourse with them, drunk enough that he is described as being unaware of what was happening. By him each became pregnant. The first son was named Moab (Hebrew, lit., "from the father" [meh-Av]). He was the patriarch of the nation known as Moab. The second son was named Ammon or Ben-Ammi (Hebrew, lit., "from our nation"). He became the patriarch of the nation of Ammon.

2006-12-30 15:56:15 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 2 0

They fled the destruction of Sodom, and eventually moved into the mountains away from Zoar (a small town some distance from Sodom, that had escaped the destruction). Lot seems to have been suffering from some sort of paranoid behaviour: he refused to live in any sort of town, and became a cave dweller instead.

His daughters eventually despaired of having any sort of "normal" married family life, and committed incest with their father in order to get pregnant. Their sons (Ben-Ammi and Moab, respectively) became the progenitors of two different tribes from that area. The Moabites and Ammonites were two fierce rivals of the Jewish people 500 years later.

2006-12-31 00:00:12 · answer #2 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 0 0

They were spared from the fire and brimstone. But because it was the law that the bloodline be continued, the daughters took turns getting their father drunk and slept with him, so they could have children because when they thought that it was only them three left in the entire world, it was what they thought they had to do to survive and still obey the laws of God.

What they did was construde as a sin in the eyes of others, but all they were trying to do was continue the family blood line according to God's word.

2006-12-30 23:57:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

If you are asking what eventually happened to them? (after the sexual escapades in the cave)
Lot's daughter's had two sons. The elder bore a son named Moab, father of the Moabites and the younger bore a son named Ben-Ammi, father of the children of Ammon.
I don't recall anything else written of the three.

2006-12-31 00:03:58 · answer #4 · answered by paulsamuel33 4 · 0 0

After the destruction of Sodom etc.They really thought they were the only ones left on Earth.So rather than let the species die out,they decided to get pregnant by their father and knowing he wouldn't go for it ,they got him drunk and did it anyway.Their sons were named Moab and Ammon.Their descendants became those two countries,Moab and Ammon and were a thorn in Israels side for many,many years.
When you first read the story it sounds creepy until you realize what was happening.

2006-12-30 23:59:18 · answer #5 · answered by AngelsFan 6 · 0 0

due to the traumatic experience of seeing their mother turned into a salt lick and being molested by their drunken despondent father Lott's daughters spent years in therapy.

2006-12-30 23:59:27 · answer #6 · answered by nebtet 6 · 1 1

His lineage was about to die out, but his daughters had the bright idea to fix it. The got him real drunk and got him to impregnate them in order for his line to go on. And that's the truth.

2006-12-30 23:54:50 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 1 0

Lot's daughters made him drunk, had incestuous relationships with him, and the children that came of that were the forefathers of the nation of moab.
Pretty disturbing.

2006-12-30 23:55:41 · answer #8 · answered by John S 2 · 0 0

His daughters bore his children.

2006-12-30 23:54:52 · answer #9 · answered by Mr. Bodhisattva 6 · 1 0

His daughters got him loaded and had sex with him, because there were no other men around.

2006-12-30 23:54:37 · answer #10 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 1 0

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