Genesis 19:32

Genesis 19:32 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
• New International Version (NIV)Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father."
• New King James Version (NKJV)Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve the lineage of our father.”

Context of Genesis 19:32

30Lot departed from Zoar and lived in the mountains along with his two daughters, because he was afraid to live in Zoar. Instead, he and his two daughters lived in a cave. 31Then the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us as is the custom of all the land. Come, let’s get our father to drink wine so that we can sleep with him and preserve our father’s line.” 33So they got their father to drink wine that night, and the firstborn came and slept with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she got up. 34The next day the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight so you can go sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”

Genesis 19:32 word by word

לְכָ֨ה נַשְׁקֶ֧ה אֶת־אָבִ֛ינוּ יַ֖יִן וְנִשְׁכְּבָ֣ה עִמּ֑וֹ וּנְחַיֶּ֥ה מֵאָבִ֖ינוּ זָֽרַע׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Comeיָלַךְyâlak · to walkH3212
• let us makeשָׁקָהshâqâh · to water: drinkH8248
• our fatherאָב'âb · fatherH1
• drinkשָׁקָהshâqâh · to water: drinkH8248
• wineיַ֫יִןyayin · wineH3196
• and we will lieשָׁכַבshâkab · to lie down: have sexH7901
• with him, that we may preserveחָיָהchâyâh · to liveH2421
• seedזֶ֫רַעzera‛ · seed: childrenH2233

Cross-references for Genesis 19:32

• Genesis 11:3They said to each other, “Come, let’s make oven-fired bricks.” (They used brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.)
• Genesis 9:21He drank some of the wine, became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.
• Proverbs 23:31Don’t gaze at wine because it is red, because it gleams in the cup and goes down smoothly.
• Habakkuk 2:15Woe to him who gives his neighbors drink, pouring out your wrath and even making them drunk, in order to look at their nakedness!
• Leviticus 18:6“You are not to come near any close relative for sexual intercourse; I am the Lord.
• Mark 12:19“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife behind but no child, that man should take the wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

Commentaries on Genesis 19:32

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 32Come, let us make our father drink wine - On their flight from Zoar it is probable they had brought with them certain provisions to serve them for the time being, and the wine here mentioned among the rest. After considering all that has been said to criminate both Lot and his daughters in this business, I cannot help thinking that the transaction itself will bear a more favorable construction than that which has been generally put on it. 1. It does not…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-38Verses 1-38 - The Destruction of Sodom and Amorah 9. גשׁ־ gesh -hāl'âh “approach to a distant point,” stand back. 11. סנורים sanevērı̂ym “blindness,” affecting the mental more than the ocular vision. 37. מואב mô'āb Moab; מאב mē'āb “from a father.” בן־עמי ben -‛amı̂y Ben-ammi, “son of my people.” עמון ‛amôn Ammon, “of the people.” This chapter is the continuation and conclusion of the former. It records a part of God‘s strange work - strange…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 30-38Verses 30-38 See the peril of security. Lot, who kept chaste in Sodom, and was a mourner for the wickedness of the place, and a witness against it, when in the mountain, alone, and, as he thought, out of the way of temptation, is shamefully overtaken. Let him that thinks he stands high, and stands firm, take heed lest he fall. See the peril of drunkenness; it is not only a great sin itself, but lets in many sins, which bring a lasting wound and dishonour…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 30-35Sodom's culture apparently influenced Lot’s daughters more than their father's values. They had no issues having children with their drunk father because they saw no other way to continue their family line (see 9:21–22).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-381. there came two angels--most probably two of those that had been with Abraham, commissioned to execute the divine judgment against Sodom. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom--In Eastern cities it is the market, the seat of justice, of social intercourse and amusement, especially a favorite lounge in the evenings, the arched roof affording a pleasant shade.Read the comment

Topics related to Genesis 19:32

• Adultery
• Children
• Incest
• Lasciviousness
• Lot
• Wine
• Women

In the dictionaries

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• Tarry
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Commentaries on Genesis 19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings