Genesis 19:32
What does Genesis 19:32 mean?
A plain-English look at Genesis 19:32 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father,
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862come, we cause our father to drink wine, and lie with him, and preserve from our father--a seed.'
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Come, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890come, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father.
Context
v.31And the first-born 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:
v.32This passage
v.33And they made their father drink wine that night: and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 18:6
None of you shall approach to any that are near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am Jehovah.
- Genesis 11:3
And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
- Mark 12:19
Teacher, Moses wrote unto us, If a man’s brother die, and leave a wife behind him, and leave no child, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
- Proverbs 23:31
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly:
- Genesis 9:21
and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
- Habakkuk 2:15
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, to thee that addest thy venom, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
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