Genesis 19:33

And 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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In The King James Version

And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

In Context

32Come, let us inebriate him with wine, and let us sleep with him, so that we may be able to preserve offspring from our father.”

34Likewise, the next day, the elder said to the younger: “Behold, yesterday I slept with my father, let us give him wine to drink yet again this night, and you will sleep with him, so that we may save offspring from our father.”

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:6No man shall approach her who is a close blood-relative to him, so as to uncover her nakedness. I am the Lord.

Proverbs 23:29Who has woe? Whose father has woe? Who has quarrels? Who falls into pits? Who has wounds without cause? Who has watery eyes?

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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