Parallel Verses

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.”

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,

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 Then the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of the earth. 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him that we may preserve our family through our father.” 33 So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

Cross References

Genesis 9:21

He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.

Genesis 11:3

They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

Leviticus 18:6-7

‘None of you shall approach any blood relative of his to uncover nakedness; I am the Lord.

Proverbs 23:31-33

Do not look on the wine when it is red,
When it sparkles in the cup,
When it goes down smoothly;

Habakkuk 2:15-16

“Woe to you who make your neighbors drink,
Who mix in your venom even to make them drunk
So as to look on their nakedness!

Mark 12:19

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves behind a wife and leaves no child, his brother should marry the wife and raise up children to his brother.

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