Génesis 19:32

32 Ven, vamos a emborracharlo, y nos acostaremos con él; y así, por medio de él tendremos descendencia.

Génesis 19:32 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 19:32

Come, let us make our father drink wine
Meaning to excess, so as to be inebriated with it, and not know what he did: this wine might be brought with them from Sodom, with other provisions for their refreshment and support; or it may be rather from Zoar, where they furnished themselves with a quantity for their support in the mountain they betook themselves unto:

and we will lie with him, that we may preserve the seed of our father;
have children by him, and propagate and preserve the human species; this they might think lawful, such incestuous copulations being usual among their neighbours the Arabs, as appears from Strabo ^F19 and other writers, and especially when there seemed to them to be a necessity for it; and it may be this did not arise from a spirit of uncleanness, or a brutish lust prevailing in them, having been religiously educated, and having preserved their chastity among such an impure generation as the men of Sodom: wherefore this might rather arise, as Bishop Patrick and others have thought, from an eager desire after the Messiah, they might hope would spring from them; their father being a descendant of Shem, a son of Abraham's elder brother, and now remarkably saved from Sodom, which they might conclude was for this purpose; and they knew of no way in which it could be brought about but in this they proposed; and the rather this may be thought to be their view, as the above learned commentator observes, when we remark their former chaste life in Sodom; their joining together in this contrivance, which, had it been a lustful business, they would have been ashamed to have communicated their thoughts of it to one another; and their imposition of names on their children to perpetuate the memory of this fact, which they rather gloried in, than were ashamed of: to which may be added, that the ancient Jewish writers ^F20 interpret this of the Messiah; and they observe,

``it is not said a son, but seed, that seed, which is he that comes from another place: and what is this? this is the King Messiah:''

and Ruth, the Moabitess, who was of the race of the eldest daughter of Lot, stands in the genealogy of our Lord, ( Matthew 1:5 ) : however, let the intention be ever so good, it will, not justify an action so monstrously vile.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Geograph. l. 16. p. 538. Vid. Pocock, Specim. Arab. Hist. p. 337, 338.
F20 Bereshit Rabba, sect. 51. fol. 46. 1. Midrash Ruth, fol. 35. 4.

Génesis 19:32 In-Context

30 Luego, por miedo a quedarse en Zoar, Lot se fue con sus dos hijas a vivir en la región montañosa. Allí vivió con ellas en una cueva.

31 Un día, la hija mayor le dijo a la menor:—Nuestro padre ya está viejo, y no quedan hombres en esta región para que se casen con nosotras, como es la costumbre de todo el mundo.

32 Ven, vamos a emborracharlo, y nos acostaremos con él; y así, por medio de él tendremos descendencia.

33 Esa misma noche emborracharon a su padre y, sin que este se diera cuenta de nada, la hija mayor fue y se acostó con él.

34 A la mañana siguiente, la mayor le dijo a la menor:—Mira, anoche me acosté con mi padre. Vamos a emborracharlo de nuevo esta noche, y ahora tú te acostarás con él; y así, por medio de él tendremos descendencia.