Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.” New Living Translation Come, let’s get him drunk with wine, and then we will have sex with him. That way we will preserve our family line through our father.” English Standard Version Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” Berean Standard Bible Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.” King James Bible Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. New King James Version Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve the lineage of our father.” New American Standard Bible Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and let’s sleep with him so that we may keep our family alive through our father.” NASB 1995 “Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him that we may preserve our family through our father.” NASB 1977 “Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve our family through our father.” Legacy Standard Bible Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him that we may preserve our seed through our father.” Amplified Bible Come, let us make our father drunk with wine, and we will lie with him so that we may preserve our family through our father.” Christian Standard Bible Come, let’s get our father to drink wine so that we can sleep with him and preserve our father’s line.” Holman Christian Standard Bible Come, let’s get our father to drink wine so that we can sleep with him and preserve our father’s line.” American Standard Version come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. Contemporary English Version Let's get our father drunk! Then we can sleep with him and have children." English Revised Version come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. GOD'S WORD® Translation Let's give our father wine to drink. Then we'll go to bed with him so that we'll be able to preserve our family line through our father." Good News Translation Come on, let's get our father drunk, so that we can sleep with him and have children by him." International Standard Version Come on! Let's make our father drink wine, and then we'll have sex with him so we can preserve our father's lineage." Majority Standard Bible Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.” NET Bible Come, let's make our father drunk with wine so we can have sexual relations with him and preserve our family line through our father." New Heart English Bible Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will sleep with him, that we may preserve our family through our father." Webster's Bible Translation Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. World English Bible Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.” Literal Translations Literal Standard Versioncome, we cause our father to drink wine, and lie with him, and preserve a seed from our father.” Young's Literal Translation come, we cause our father to drink wine, and lie with him, and preserve from our father -- a seed.' Smith's Literal Translation Come, we will give to our father wine to drink, and we will lie down with him, and we shall preserve alive seed from our father. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleCome, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. Catholic Public Domain Version Come, let us inebriate him with wine, and let us sleep with him, so that we may be able to preserve offspring from our father.” New American Bible Come, let us ply our father with wine and then lie with him, that we may ensure posterity by our father.” New Revised Standard Version Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring through our father.” Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleCome, let us make our father drink wine and we will lie with him so that we may raise an offspring from our father. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Come, we will give wine to drink to our father, and we will lie with him and we will raise up seed from our father.” OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.' Brenton Septuagint Translation Come and let us make our father drink wine, and let us sleep with him, and let us raise up seed from our father. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Lot and His Daughters…31One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth. 32Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.” 33So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.… Cross References Leviticus 18:6-7 None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD. / You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her. Leviticus 18:17 You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved. Deuteronomy 27:22 ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’ 2 Samuel 13:11-14 And when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said, “Come lie with me, my sister!” / “No, my brother!” she cried. “Do not violate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing! / Where could I ever take my shame? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel! Please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.” ... Ezekiel 16:49-50 Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy. / Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them, as you have seen. Judges 19:24 Look, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine, and you can use them and do with them as you wish. But do not do such a vile thing to this man.” 2 Peter 2:6-8 if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly; / and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless / (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— Romans 1:26-27 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. / Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. 1 Corinthians 5:1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, / nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Ephesians 5:3-5 But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed. / Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving. / For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Galatians 5:19-21 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Colossians 3:5-6 Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. / Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; / each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, / not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God; Jude 1:7 In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire. Treasury of Scripture Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. Come. Genesis 11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. drink. Genesis 9:21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. Proverbs 23:31-33 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright… Habakkuk 2:15,16 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! … seed. Leviticus 18:6,7 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD… Mark 12:19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. Jump to Previous Alive Bed Cause Drink Family Father's Let's Offspring Preserve Seed WineJump to Next Alive Bed Cause Drink Family Father's Let's Offspring Preserve Seed WineGenesis 19 1. Lot entertains two angels.4. The vicious Sodomites are smitten with blindness. 12. Lot is warned, and in vain warns his sons-in-law. 15. He is directed to flee to the mountains, but obtains leave to go into Zoar. 24. Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed. 26. Lot's wife looks back and becomes a pillar of salt. 29. Lot dwells in a cave. 31. The incestuous origin of Moab and Ammon. Come, let us This phrase indicates a deliberate and premeditated action. The Hebrew word for "come" (לְכָה, lecha) is often used to invite or propose a course of action. Here, it reflects the daughters' initiative and determination to address their perceived crisis. Historically, this reflects the urgency and desperation felt by Lot's daughters, who believed they were the last humans on earth after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Come,לְכָ֨ה (lə·ḵāh) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk let us get our father אָבִ֛ינוּ (’ā·ḇî·nū) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common plural Strong's 1: Father drunk נַשְׁקֶ֧ה (naš·qeh) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect Cohortative if contextual - first person common plural Strong's 8248: To quaff, to irrigate, furnish a, potion to with wine, יַ֖יִן (ya·yin) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3196: Wine, intoxication so that we can sleep וְנִשְׁכְּבָ֣ה (wə·niš·kə·ḇāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural Strong's 7901: To lie down with עִמּ֑וֹ (‘im·mōw) Preposition | third person masculine singular Strong's 5973: With, equally with him and preserve וּנְחַיֶּ֥ה (ū·nə·ḥay·yeh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative if contextual - first person common plural Strong's 2421: To live, to revive [his] מֵאָבִ֖ינוּ (mê·’ā·ḇî·nū) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common plural Strong's 1: Father line.” זָֽרַע׃ (zā·ra‘) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2233: Seed, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity Links Genesis 19:32 NIVGenesis 19:32 NLT Genesis 19:32 ESV Genesis 19:32 NASB Genesis 19:32 KJV Genesis 19:32 BibleApps.com Genesis 19:32 Biblia Paralela Genesis 19:32 Chinese Bible Genesis 19:32 French Bible Genesis 19:32 Catholic Bible OT Law: Genesis 19:32 Come let's make our father drink wine (Gen. 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