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Many thanks to my current hero Richard Dawkins for this little gem...
I vaguely remembered the story of Lot and his wife from those dark Catholic days in various nunneries and monasteries where, despite the lunacy, I managed to find an education. Wasn't he the only one worth saving in Sodom, so God told him to leg it just in time? What I didn't realise was the shenanigans that went on before and after his departure.
So anyway...
Two chaps turn up in the town and Lot offers to put them up.

Gen 19-1 "My lords," he said, "please turn aside to your servant's house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning."

So far so good. Then the good ol' boys of Sodom surround his house and demand he hands the two men over, for a bit of the local rough & tumble...

Gen 19-3 "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."

Ooh er... Then comes the really choice bit. So loyal is Lot to his new-found pals of a few minutes that he offers to throw his two virgin daughters to the mob!

Gen 19-8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them.

Then.. well to cut a long story short.. Lot and his daughters ended up living in a cave (it isn't really clear why), and the daughters obviously felt they had missed out not being thrown to the mob (albeit a rather disinterested Sodom one) and hatched a plot of their own...

Gen 19-31 to 38 One day the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man around here to lie with us, as is the custom all over the earth. Let's get our father to drink wine and then lie with him and preserve our family line through our father." That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and lay with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up. The next day the older daughter said to the younger, "Last night I lay with my father. Let's get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and lie with him so we can preserve our family line through our father." So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went and lay with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up. So both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father. The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab; he is the father of the Moabites of today. The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites of today.

You couldn't make it up could you? Oh, wait a minute...

Oh, and the footnotes?

Moab - Sounds like the Hebrew for from father
Ben-Ammi means Son of my people

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