Genesis 19:32

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will sleep with him, so that we may extend our father's line.”

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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

31The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere to sleep with us according to the way of all the world.

33So they made their father drink wine that night. Then the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:3They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick instead of stone and tar as mortar.

Leviticus 18:7Do not dishonor your father by sleeping with your mother. She is your mother! You must not dishonor her.

Habakkuk 2:15'Woe to the one who forces his neighbors to drink— 1 you express your anger + 2:15 There is some question about whether the Hebrew should be translated as anger or as wineskin . over and you make them drunk 1 in order to look at their nakedness.' 2

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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