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32 Come, let us give our father wine to drink and let us lie with him[a] that we may secure descendants through our father.”[b] 33 And they gave their father wine to drink that night, and the firstborn went and lay with her father, but he did not know when she lay down or when she got up. 34 And it happened that, the next day the firstborn said to the younger one, “Look, I laid with my father last night. Let us give him wine to drink also tonight, then go and lie with him that we may secure descendants through our father.”[c]

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  1. Genesis 19:32 Idiom for “have sexual intercourse with him”
  2. Genesis 19:32 Literally “that we might preserve offspring from our father”
  3. Genesis 19:34 Literally “that we might preserve offspring from our father”