I notice that this is the second entry for March 12. I had avoided commenting on the story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in that entry.
Genesis 19--Sodom and Gomorrah. A horribly violent story. How could Lot offer to throw his daughters out to that violent angry crowd? Sex and violence seem to go in bent directions together. (And I am not meaning that homosexuality is per se violent. I'm thinking more about the restive quality of the behavior of the men of Sodom whose appetites were so totally uncontrolled and violent.)
Nevertheless we read: 19:16 "But [Lot] lingered; so the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him out and left him outside the city."
Out of the terribleness of the destruction of the city and the family's rescue comes the story of Lot's daughters who looked for a solution to their childlessness via incest. This time drunkenness is added to the mix (as in the story of Noah's sons when Noah became drunk from the fruits of his vineyard).
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