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Genesis 19:32

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19:32Come, let’s make our father drunk with wine88 so we can have sexual relations89 with him and preserve90 our family line through our father.”91

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  1. 88 Heb “drink wine.”
  2. 89 Heb “and we will lie down.” The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive is subordinated to the preceding cohortative and indicates purpose/result.
  3. 90 Or “that we may preserve.” Here the cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates their ultimate goal.
  4. 91 Heb “and we will keep alive from our father descendants.” For a discussion of the cultural background of the daughters’ desire to preserve our family line see F. C. Fensham, “The Obliteration of the Family as Motif in the Near Eastern Literature,” 10 (1969): 191–99.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Come, let’s get our father to drink wine so that we can sleep with him and preserve our father’s line.”

NLTNew Living Translation

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.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Come, let us give our father wine to drink and let us lie with him that we may secure descendants through our father.”

KJV 1900King James Version

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