Genesis 19 · Verse 32

Genesis 19:32

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

Genesis 19:32, King James Version

Genesis 19:32 in other translations

BSB	Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”
WEB	Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
ASV	come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
YLT	come, we cause our father to drink wine, and lie with him, and preserve from our father--a seed.'
DARBY	come, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father.
BBE	Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father,
Webster	Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

What does Genesis 19:32 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine - On their flight from Zoar it is probable they had brought with them certain provisions to serve them for the time being, and the wine here mentioned among the rest. After considering all that has been said to criminate both Lot and his daughters in this business, I cannot help thinking that the transaction itself will bear a more favorable construction than that which has been generally put on it. 1. It does not appear that it was through any base or sensual desires that the daughters of Lot wished to deceive their father. 2. They might have thought that it would have been criminal to have married into any other family, and they knew that their husbands elect, who were probably of the same kindred, had perished in the overthrow of Sodom. 3. They might have supposed that there was no other way left to preserve the family, and consequently that righteousness for which it had been remarkable, but the way which they now took. 4. They appear to have supposed that their father would not come into the measure, because he would have considered it as profane; yet, judging the measure to be expedient and necessary, they endeavored to sanctify the improper means used, by the goodness of the end at which they aimed; a doctrine which, though resorted to by many, should be reprobated by all. Acting on this bad principle they caused their father to drink wine. See note on Gen 19:38.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 19:30-38

See the peril of security. Lot, who kept chaste in Sodom, and was a mourner for the wickedness of the place, and a witness against it, when in the mountain, alone, and, as he thought, out of the way of temptation, is shamefully overtaken. Let him that thinks he stands high, and stands firm, take heed lest he fall. See the peril of drunkenness; it is not only a great sin itself, but lets in many sins, which bring a…

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Genesis 19:32 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לְכָ֨הle.Khahcome !H1980

נַשְׁקֶ֧הnash.Kehlet us make drinkH8248

אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853

אָבִ֛ינוּ'a.Vi.nufather ourH1

יַ֖יִןYa.yinwineH3196

וְנִשְׁכְּבָ֣הve.nish.ke.Vahand let us lieH7901

עִמּ֑וֹi.Mowith himH5973

וּנְחַיֶּ֥הu.ne.chai.Yehso we may preserve aliveH2421

מֵאָבִ֖ינוּme.'a.Vi.nufrom father of ourH1

זָֽרַע\׃Za.ra'springH2233

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Genesis 19:32

Leviticus 18:6-7
None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord. The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Genesis 11:3
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
Mark 12:19
Master, 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.
Genesis 9:21
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Proverbs 23:31-33
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Habakkuk 2:15-16
Woe 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! Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the Lord’s right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Come.
11:3
drink.
9:21; Pr 23:31-33; Hab 2:15,16
seed.
Le 18:6,7; Mr 12:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

Genesis 19:31
And the firstborn 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:
Genesis 19:32
Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
Genesis 19:33
And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

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Genesis 19:32 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Ven, demos á beber vino á nuestro padre, y durmamos con él, y conservaremos de nuestro padre generación.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Viens, faisons boire du vin à notre père, et couchons avec lui, afin que nous conservions une semence de notre père.
German Elberfelder 1871	Komm, laß uns unserem Vater Wein zu trinken geben und bei ihm liegen, damit wir von unserem Vater Samen am Leben erhalten.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Veni, inebriemus eum vino, dormiamusque cum eo, ut servare possimus ex patre nostro semen.