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Genesis 19:34

in Genesis 19

The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

KJV

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

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This verse in Genesis 19

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Origen of Alexandria

HOMILIES ON GENESIS 5.3 · Written before 253.

After these things now that well-known story is related in which it is written that Lot's daughters cunningly lay with their father by stealth. In this matter I do not know if anyone can so excuse Lot as to free him from sin. Nor again do I think he should be so accused that he ought to become party to such serious incest. For I do not find him to have plotted against or to have violently snatched away the chastity of his daughters but rather to have been the victim of a plot and cunningly ensnared.

This site's exposition

I slept with my father last night

on Genesis 19:34-36

The second night is planned in daylight by the sister who went in first, and they say they want to preserve their father's line. One chapter earlier God promised a son to a woman past the age of childbearing. Both daughters became pregnant by their father.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And it came to pass on the morrow,....

The words behind it

21 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַֽיְהִי֙and it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • מִֽמָּחֳרָ֔תfrom [the] next day

    mimochoratH4283 →

  • וַתֹּ֤אמֶרand she said

    vatomerH559 →5305 times

  • הַבְּכִירָה֙the firstborn

    habekhirahH1067 →6 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַצְּעִירָ֔הthe young

    hatzeirahH6810 →23 times

  • הֵן־here!

    hen-H2005 →316 times

  • שָׁכַ֥בְתִּיI lay with

    shakhavtiH7901 →212 times

  • אֶ֖מֶשׁlast night

    ʾemeshH570 →5 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אָבִ֑יfather my

    ʾaviH1 →1212 times

  • נַשְׁקֶ֨נּוּlet us make drink him

    nashkenuH8248 →61 times

  • יַ֜יִןwine

    yayinH3196 →141 times

  • גַּם־also

    gam-H1571 →769 times

  • הַלַּ֗יְלָהthis night

    halaylahH3915 →233 times

  • וּבֹ֙אִי֙and go

    uvoiH935 →2568 times

  • שִׁכְבִ֣יlie

    shikhviH7901 →212 times

  • עִמּ֔וֹwith him

    imoH5973 →1050 times

  • וּנְחַיֶּ֥הso we may preserve alive

    unechaiyehH2421 →282 times

  • מֵאָבִ֖ינוּfrom father of our

    meavinuH1 →1212 times

  • זָֽרַע׃spring

    zara'H2233 →229 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Isaiah 3:9The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.2 worksJeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.2 worksJeremiah 5:3O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.2 worksJeremiah 6:15Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD.2 worksJeremiah 8:12Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 6:15

    Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 3:3

      Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

      Reached by 3 separate paths from here.

    • Jeremiah 8:12

      Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 3:3

    Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 26:19

      I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

    • Jeremiah 5:24

      They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’

    • Jeremiah 14:22

      Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have…

    • Jeremiah 14:4

      The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.

    • Amos 4:7

      “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

  • Through

    Isaiah 3:9

    The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 13:13

      But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

Lot Flees as Sodom and Gomorrah Burn — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Lot Flees as Sodom and Gomorrah Burn — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Genesis: the study guide →Read Genesis 19 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON GENESIS 5.3.

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