Genesis 19:37

The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab [From father]. He is the father of the Moabites [Descendants of From father] to this day.

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In The King James Version

And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

In Context

36Thus both of Lot [Veil, Covering]’s daughters were with child by their father.

38The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi [Son of my people]. He is the father of the children of Ammon [Tribal people] to this day.

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Cross References

Numbers 22:1The children of Israel [God prevails] traveled on and encamped in the plains of Moab [From father] beyond the Jordan [Descender] River, opposite Jericho [Fragrant, Moon]. 1 Haftarah Hukkat ·Taking leave· ·Regulation·: 1 Shof'tim / Judges 11:1-33 1 B'rit Hadashah ·New Covenant·: Matt 21:1-17 1 Parashah 40: Balak ·Balak [Devastator, Wasting]· 22:2-25:9 1 Read with Parashah 39 in regular years; in leap years, read separately

Deuteronomy 2:9Adonai said to me, “Don’t bother Moab [From father], neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot [Veil, Covering] for a possession.”

Deuteronomy 23:3+ 23:3. Deut 23:3-5 (Deut 23:3-6; Num ch 22-24, 31:16; Josh 13:22; Neh 13:1-3) [Heb Bible Deut 23:7-8 (Deut 23:4-7)] (#2b.182): T. An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of Adonai / R. Not to allow any Moabite or Ammonite males to marry into the Jewish people An Ammonite [Tribal people] or a Moabite [From father] shall not enter into Adonai’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into Adonai’s assembly forever;

Psalms 83:9Do to them as you did to Midian [Strife], 2 as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon; 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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