Lot feared Zoar and fled to the hills—to a cave with his two daughters. And there, in desperation and dysfunction, the daughters get their father drunk and conceive children by him. The result: Moab and Ben-ammi, fathers of the Moabites and Ammonites. This is the final chapter of Lot's story—not heroic, not faithful, just tragic. The man who chose Sodom ends in a cave, the victim and participant in incest. Genesis doesn't sanitize. It shows where certain paths lead. And yet—Ruth the Moabite will be in the line of David. God redeems even the wreckage.

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