Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father,

New American Standard Bible

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him that we may preserve our family through our father.”

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

Come on! Let's make our father drink wine, and then we'll have sex with him so we can preserve our father's lineage."

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

Come, let us make our father drunk with wine, and we will lie with him so that we may preserve our family through our father.”

Darby Translation

come, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father.

Julia Smith Translation

Come, we will give to our father wine to drink, and we will lie down with him, and we shall preserve alive seed from our father.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Come therefore, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him that we may save seed of our father."

NET Bible

Come, let's make our father drunk with wine so we can have sexual relations with him and preserve our family line through our father."

New Heart English Bible

Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."

The Emphasized Bible

Come on! let us cause our father to drink wine and let us lie with him, that we may keep alive from our father, a seed.

Webster

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

World English Bible

Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."

Youngs Literal Translation

come, we cause our father to drink wine, and lie with him, and preserve from our father -- a seed.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

let us make
שׁקה 
Shaqah 
Usage: 60

שׁקה 
Shaqah 
Usage: 60

יין 
Yayin 
Usage: 140

and we will lie
שׁכב 
Shakab 
Usage: 210

with him, that we may preserve
חיה 
Chayah 
Usage: 264

זרע 
Zera` 
Usage: 229

References

American

Hastings

Lot

Watsons

Context Readings

Lot And His Daughters

31 And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way: 32 Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father, 33 And that night they made their father take much wine; and the older daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.

Cross References

Genesis 9:21

And he took of the wine of it and was overcome by drink; and he was uncovered in his tent.

Genesis 11:3

And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.

Leviticus 18:6-7

You may not have sex connection with anyone who is a near relation: I am the Lord.

Proverbs 23:31-33

Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:

Habakkuk 2:15-16

A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame!

Mark 12:19

Master, in the law Moses says, If a man's brother comes to his end, and has a wife still living and no child, it is right for his brother to take his wife, and get a family for his brother.

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