Branchless Family Trees

Genesis 19:30-38

One of the more disgusting passages thus far. In short, Lot's daughters are concerned that there aren't any men around, so they get dad sauced up and get pregnant from him.

How far gone do you have to be for your dad to seem like the best mating option? Is this just an act of desperation or had Sodom really effected them this much?

It's easy to pin the fault on the wine, and say if Lot hadn't enjoyed the wine so much it never would have happened. Those things may be true, but that takes the focus off the real culprits here, Lot's daughters. They connive and dupe dear ole dad.

What's really odd is that this story is told non-judgementally. There's no blatant condemnation- just a matter of fact retelling, an explanation of the birth of the Moabites and the Ammonites. I don't know the history of these people, maybe it's a shady beginning to a shady history, but those details seem to be outside the parameters of this text.

Once again I'm left thinking..."weird"