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The daughters of the biblical patriarch Lot appear in chapter 19 of the Book of Genesis, in two connected stories. In the first, Lot offers his daughters to a Sodomite mob; in the second, his daughters have sex with Lot without his knowledge to bear him children. Only two daughters are explicitly mentioned in Genesis, both unnamed.
Concerned for their father having descendants, one evening, Lot's eldest daughter gets Lot drunk and has sex with him without his knowledge. The elder daughter then insisted that her younger sister also get their father, Lot, drunk and have sex with him, which the younger sister duly did on the following night.
Lot rests drunk in the arms of one of his daughters, while the other, standing up, points with one hand towards the outside of the cave where they have taken refuge; we glimpse the mother turned into a pillar of salt, and in the distance Sodom in flames. In this theatrical way, the young woman argues the reasons for having to sleep with her father.
The daughter to the left is the most clothed, then Lot bears more skin, and then the daughter to the right has her garment nearly exposing her. After Lot's daughters realize there are no more men on earth to reproduce with they hatch a plan to get their father drunk for two consecutive days, and after he is drunk, they lay with him to get pregnant.
Because of intoxication, Lot "perceived not" when his first-born daughter, and the following night his younger daughter, lay with him. (Genesis 19:32–35) The two children born were directly Lot's sons and indirectly his grandsons, being his daughters' sons. Likewise, their sons were also half-brothers (between them and with their mothers ...
Lot's wife disobeyed instructions not to look around and was turned into a pillar of salt – her form is just visible in the left background of the painting. Lot and his daughters then hid in a cave; the daughters, fearing the end of their family line, then got their father drunk, so they could seduce him and perpetuate their lineage. [2]
The woman stopped him and told him about her missing daughter. The guy looked at her and indicated a direction. He said go up this path up to the point where the beach sands touch the road and wait.
The daughters, believing that there are no men with whom to have offspring, get their father drunk and commit incest with him, one each night, subsequently becoming pregnant. The subject, judged as shameful in the Middle Ages, was not explicitly represented, but since the Renaissance it was depicted frequently, because of the opportunity it ...