Genesis 19:32

Come, let us inebriate him with wine, and let us sleep with him, so that we may be able to preserve offspring from our father.”

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In The King James Version

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

In Context

31And the elder said to the younger: “Our father is old, and no man remains in the land who can enter to us according to the custom of the whole world.

33And so they gave their father wine to drink that night. And the elder went in, and she slept with her father. But he did not perceive it, neither when his daughter lay down, nor when she rose up.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:3And each one said to his neighbor, “Come, let us make bricks, and bake them with fire.” And they had bricks instead of stones, and pitch instead of mortar.

Leviticus 18:7You shall not expose the nakedness of your father, or the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

Habakkuk 2:15Woe to anyone who gives a drink to a friend, releasing a drug and inebriating, so as to look upon their nakedness.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 19:31-38

Lot's Disgrace. ( b. c. 1898.) 30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. 31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 33 And they made their father drink wine that… Read the whole commentary →

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