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Ch. XX. The sun was risen on the earth when Lot entered Segor; and the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorra brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And he overthrew these cities, and all the circumjacent country, and all hte inhabitants of those cities, and all the productions of the ground. And Lot's wife having looked back was turned into a pillar of salt.

And Abraham went early in the morning to the place, where he had stood before the Lord, and he looked towards Sodom and Gomorra and towards the circumjacent plain, and he beheld and lo! a flame ascended out of the earth like the smoke of a furnace. But when God destroyed all the cities of that neighborhood he remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out from that destruction.

Now when the Lord had destroyed those cities in which Lot had dwelt, Lot went up out of Segor, and he and his two daughters with him settled in the mountains; for he was afraid to dwell in Segor. So he and his two daughters with him took up their abode in a cave. And the elder said to the younger, Our father is old and there is none in this land who will come in unto us, as is customary in all the earth. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him that we may raise up seed from our father. So they made their father drink wine that very night, and the elder having gone in lay with her father that night, and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose. And on the next night the elder said to the younger, Lo! I lay with our father last night, let us make him drink wine this night also, and do thou go in and lie with him and let us raise up seed from our father. So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger went in and lay with her father; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose. Thus the two daughters of Lot conceived by their father. And the eldest bore a son and called his name Moab, say From my father. He is the father of the present Moabites. And the youngest also bore a son and called his name Amman saying, Son of the same as I. He is the father of the present Ammanites.

Now Abraham had removed thence into the south country, and made his abode between Kades and Sour, and sojourned