Genesis Chapter 19 verse 32 Holy Bible
come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
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Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father,
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come, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father.
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Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
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Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
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Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."
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come, we cause our father to drink wine, and lie with him, and preserve from our father -- a seed.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 32. - Come, let us make our father drink wine, - either, therefore, Lot had not left Sodom totally unprovided (Inglis), or some little time had elapsed after his escaping to the mountain cave, since his daughters are provided with this intoxicating beverage - and we will He with him. Considering the town in which the daughters of Lot had been reared, the mother of whom they were the offspring, and the example they had received from their father (Ver. 8), "we can understand, though we cannot cease to abhor, their incestuous conduct" (Kalisch). Their proposal was revolting and unnatural in the extreme. By subsequent Mosaic legislation a transgression of such enormity was rendered punishable by death. Even in the present instance the perpetrators were not wholly unconscious of the wickedness of their conduct. The fact that they required a stratagem for the attainment of their purpose shows that at least they could not calculate on their father's approbation. The entire story has been regarded as the invention of later Jewish hatred to the Moabites and Ammonites (De Wette), a conjecture believed by some to be " not improbable (Rosenmüller); but if so, how should the same writer exhibit Abraham (Genesis 18:23) as filled with compassionate tenderness towards the cities of the plain? (Havernick). That we may preserve seed of our father. Literally, quicken or vivify seed (cf. Ver. 34). Lot's daughters may be credited with whatever virtue may be supposed to reside in this motive for their conduct.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(32) That we may preserve seed of our father.--This was a very strong feeling in ancient times, and affords the sole excuse for the revolting conduct of these women. The utter degradation of Lot and his family is the most painful part of his story, which thus ends in his intense shame.
