Both of Lot's daughters become pregnant by their father. The two pregnancies are the outcome of the plan the daughters formed out of perceived necessity. The text is reporting, not endorsing. What follows in the next two verses is the origin of two of Israel's neighboring peoples, peoples who will be woven into the story of redemption in ways no one in the cave could have anticipated. The genealogies of Scripture consistently tell the story that God works in and through the most broken beginnings. The application: no family history is so damaged that God cannot work through it. The family that begins in a cave with incest produces a line that carries the Messiah.

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