Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
WEB
Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”
YLT
come, we cause our father to drink wine, and lie with him, and preserve from our father--a seed.'
DBT
come, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)