Genesis 19:32
30 Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains—for he was afraid to stay in Zoar—where they lived in a cave.
31 One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.
Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”
33 So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
34 The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”
- KJV
- Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
- WEB
- Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
- ASV
- come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
- DARBY
- come, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father.
- BLB
- Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve the seed of our father.”
- ÅB
- Kom, la oss gi vår far vin å drikke og legge oss hos ham, så vi kan holde slekten i live ved vår far!
- OTB
- Kom, la oss få vår far til å drikke vin, og vi vil ligge med ham, så vi kan bevare vår slektslinje gjennom vår far."
- B1930
- Kom, la oss gi vår far vin å drikke og legge oss hos ham, så vi kan holde ætten i live ved vår far!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Leviticus 18:6–7
None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.
Read in contextGenesis 11:3
And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
Read in contextMark 12:19
“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.
Read in contextGenesis 9:21
But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.
Read in contextProverbs 23:31–33
Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
Read in contextHabakkuk 2:15–16
Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!
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