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32 Come on, let’s get our father to drink wine, and we will lie down with him, that we may preserve our father’s seed.”[a] 33 They got their father to drink wine that night, and the firstborn went and lay down with her father. He did not know it when she lay down or when she got up.

34 Then the next day the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, last night I lay down with my father. Let us get him to drink wine again tonight. You go and lie down with him, so that we may preserve our father’s seed.”

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  1. Genesis 19:32 Seed here refers to semen and to the offspring that result from it.