Genesis 19:32

Come on, let's get our father drunk with wine and sleep with him so we can keep his family line going.”

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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

31Sometime later the older daughter said to the younger one, “Our father is growing old, and there's no men left to give us children like everyone does.

33So they got their father drunk with wine that night. The older daughter went and slept with him, and he didn't notice when she lay down or when she got up.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:3They said to one another, “Come on, let's make some bricks and bake them with fire.” (They used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of cement).

Leviticus 18:7Don't shame your father by having sex with your mother. She is your mother; don't have sex with her.

Habakkuk 2:15What disaster is coming to you who make your neighbors drunk! You force your cup of anger on them and make them drink so you may see them naked.

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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