Lot’s daughters did that because they thought the whole world was destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah.
They thought they were the only ones left.
This tale is still current throughout North Asia ~ it's an old favorite of the Shamen.
Interestingly enough, the oldest version is clearly feminist in structure; the newer version found in the Bible is patriarchal.
The moral of the story is that the parent(s) must see to their children's marriages or trouble will ensue.
This tale is still current throughout North Asia ~ it's an old favorite of the Shamen.
Interestingly enough, the oldest version is clearly feminist in structure; the newer version found in the Bible is patriarchal.
The moral of the story is that the parent(s) must see to their children's marriages or trouble will ensue.
Check out GEN 12:1-4...
"Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram [was] seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son..."
They knew better than that; Lot begged the angels not to send him into the mountains, and he & his family were granted refuge in Zoar, which was spared for his sake.
It was AFTER the other cities of the plain were destroyed that 'he feared to stay in Zoar'; he and his daughters THEN fled to the very mountains, and a cave, where he had earlier begged off of being sent.
Re-read Genisis 19.