“And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.”
That night they give their father wine, and the older daughter goes in and sleeps with him. He is not aware of when she lies down or when she gets up. The twice-noted lack of awareness — he did not know — is the narrator's detail for the morality of the act: Lot does not participate knowingly, though the intoxication is itself a moral failure. This is not a model for anything; it is a record of what desperation without covenant community produces. The application: the isolation that followed Lot's choice to live in Sodom, and then his rescue to a cave, created the conditions for further tragedy. The absence of the covenant community — the household, the altar, the worshipping people — is not merely a spiritual loss but a practical one. Community is protective.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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