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Ge 19:36 King James Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

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The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]
Thus were

Abraham and Lot are contrasted characters. Of the same stock (Gen 11:31) subjected to the same environment, and both justified men; (Gen 15:6); (Pe2 2:7); (Pe2 2:8) the contrast in character and career is shown to be the result of their respective choices at the crisis of their lives. Lot "chose him all the plain of Jordan" for present advantage; Abraham "looked for a city which hath foundations"; (Heb 11:10); (Gen 13:18) "came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre (fatness), which is in Hebron" (communion). The men remain types of the worldly and spiritual believer.
 
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18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.
10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.