¹³ Now when David called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him ^(A)drunk. And at evening he went out to lie on his bed ^(B)with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

³² Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we ^(A)may preserve the ^[a]lineage of 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.

³⁴ It happened on the next day that the firstborn said to the younger, “Indeed I lay with my father last night; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve the ^[b]lineage of our father.” ³⁵ Then they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

Wine Is a Mocker

²¹ And Moses said to Aaron, ^(A)“What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?”