[The Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus]@TWC D-Link bookThe Antiquities of the Jews CHAPTER 11 4/4
Now he and his daughters fled to a certain small place, encompassed with the fire, and settled in it: it is to this day called Zoar, for that is the word which the Hebrews use for a small thing.
There it was that he lived a miserable life, on account of his having no company, and his want of provisions. 5.
But his daughters, thinking that all mankind were destroyed, approached to their father, [24] though taking care not to be perceived. This they did, that human kind might not utterly fail: and they bare sons; the son of the elder was named Moab, Which denotes one derived from his father; the younger bare Ammon, which name denotes one derived from a kinsman.
The former of whom was the father of the Moabites, which is even still a great nation; the latter was the father of the Ammonites; and both of them are inhabitants of Celesyria.
And such was the departure of Lot from among the Sodomites..
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