Genesis 19:32

Come let us make our father drink wine and we will lie with him, so that we can preserve our family through our father.’

Open English Bible (UK)

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

31The older daughter said to the younger, ‘Our father is old, and there is no one on the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the world.

33So they made their father drink wine that night; and the older daughter went in and lay with her father. He, however, did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:3Then they said one to another, ‘Come, let us make bricks and thoroughly bake them.’ So they had bricks for stone and asphalt for mortar.

Habakkuk 2:15Woe to him who in fury gives drink to his neighbor to make him drunk, and see him 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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