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31 And the firstborn daughter said to the younger one, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to come in to us according to the manner of all the land. 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.

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Footnotes

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