Genesis 19:35

And they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose, and lay with him; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

In Context

34And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said unto the younger: 'Behold, I lay yesternight with my father. Let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.'

36Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

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Cross References

Proverbs 24:16For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again, but the wicked stumble under adversity.

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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