Genesis 19:32
Good News Translation
Come on, let's get our father drunk, so that we can sleep with him and have children by him."

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.”

Contemporary English Version
Let's get our father drunk! Then we can sleep with him and have children."

New American Bible
Come, let us ply our father with wine and then lie with him, that we may ensure posterity by our father.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Come, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Come, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

Come.

Genesis 11:3 And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar:

drink.

Genesis 9:21 And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent.

Proverbs 23:31-33 Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly, . . .

Habakkuk 2:15,16 Woe to him that giveth drink to his friend, and presenteth his gall, and maketh him drunk, that he may behold his nakedness. . . .

seed.

Leviticus 18:6,7 No man shall approach to her that is near of kin to him, to uncover her nakedness. I am the Lord. . . .

Mark 12:19 Master, Moses wrote unto us that if any man's brother die and leave his wife behind him and leave no children, his brother should take his wife and raise up seed to his brother.

Context
Lot and His Daughters
31And the elder said to the younger: Our father is old, and there is no man left on the earth, to come in unto us after the manner of the whole earth. 32Come, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.33And they made their father drink wine that night: and the elder went in, and lay with her father: but he perceived not, neither when his daughter lay down, nor when she rose up.…
Cross References
Luke 21:34
And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

Genesis 19:33
And they made their father drink wine that night: and the elder went in, and lay with her father: but he perceived not, neither when his daughter lay down, nor when she rose up.

Genesis 19:31
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