Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
Parallel translations
- WEB Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
- BSB Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”
- NKJV Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve the lineage of our father.”
- NASB 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.”
- NLT 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.”
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Quick answer
The daughters plot to get their father drunk and conceive children by him.
Overview
This incestuous scheme is plainly sinful, and Scripture reports it as a sad consequence of Lot's compromised life and Sodom's influence. From these unions came the Moabites and Ammonites, later enemies of Israel, yet remarkably Ruth the Moabitess enters the line of Christ (Ruth 4; Matthew 1:5). The account warns against worldly compromise while testifying to God's grace working even through fallen human history.
Cross-references & the web
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- Lev 18:6–7None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
- Gen 11:3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
- Hab 2:15–16Woe 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!
- Mark 12:19Master, 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.
- Prov 23:31–33Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
- Gen 9:21And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
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From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.
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