od had heard that the city of Sodom was full of wickedness. God was going to destroy Sodom, but Abraham convinced him to spare the city if there were as few as ten righteous men there. So God sent two of his angels to see whether there were any righteous men in Sodom.

...brimstone and fire from the LORD...

The two angels reached Sodom in the evening, and Abraham’s nephew Lot met them at the city gate. Lot invited them to his house, and prepared a feast to make them welcome. But before they had gone to bed, all the men of Sodom surrounded the house, and called to Lot, “Where are the men who are staying with you? Bring them out, so that we can have sex with them.”

Lot went outside, and said to the men, “Please, brothers, don’t do this evil thing. Look, I have two virgin daughters; let me bring them out to you, and you can do whatever you want with them. Just don’t do anything to these men who are my guests.”

The men outside didn’t listen—they said, “We’ll treat you worse than we do those men”, and they pushed toward Lot, and nearly broke down his door. But the angels pulled Lot into the house, and shut the door, and struck the men outside with blindness, so that they couldn’t find their way in.

Then the angels said to Lot, “We are going to destroy this city. Take your family, and don’t look back—escape to the mountains, or you will be caught in the destruction.”

So in the morning Lot took his wife, and his two daughters, and left the city. Then God rained fire out of the sky upon Sodom, and destroyed everyone who lived there, and everything that grew in the plain around the city. Smoke rose from the land like smoke from a furnace. And as they fled, Lot’s wife looked back behind them, and she was turned into a pillar of salt.

Lot went up and lived in a cave in the mountains with his two daughters. And the elder daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no other man for us. Let us give our father wine until he is drunk, and then sleep with him, so that our father will have descendents.”

So they gave their father wine, and the elder daughter slept with her father. And the next day, the elder daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father: let us give him wine again tonight, and you will go and sleep with him.”

And they gave their father wine again that night, and the younger daughter went and slept with him. And so both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father, and bore two sons.