Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
Parallel translations
- KJV Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
- 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 18:6–7“‘None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.
- Gen 11:3They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
- Hab 2:15–16“Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!
- Mark 12:19“Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’
- Prov 23:31–33Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
- Gen 9:21He drank of the wine and got drunk. 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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