Lot's daughters

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, the daughters have sex with their father, without his knowledge, to bear him children.

Only two daughters are explicitly mentioned in Genesis, both unnamed. However, the midrashic Sefer HaYashar describes another daughter by the name of Paltith, who is burned to death by the Sodomites for breaking their law against giving charity to foreigners. The story of Lot offering his daughters to the Sodomites is also found in surahs 11 and 15 of the Quran, although there is no mention of the rape of Lot.

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