Genesis 19:33

They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

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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’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”

34It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:6+ 18:6. Lev 18:6 (Lev 18:6-23) (#7.437): T. Not to approach anyone who is a close relative in order to have sexual relations (list given) / R. Not to be intimate, have pleasurable contact with, nor sexual relations with any forbidden woman R. Example: The Rabbis teach against actions such as embracing, kissing, hinting, and skipping, or other pleasurable contact that might lead to sexual relations / R. Note: Rabbinical Oral Tradition teaches this is a warning against intimacy that might lead to sexual relations “‘None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Adonai.

Proverbs 23:29Who has woe? 2 Who has sorrow? 2 Who has strife? 2 Who has complaints? 2 Who has needless bruises? 2 Who has bloodshot eyes? 1

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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