KJV King James Version
And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same [is] the father of the Moabites unto this day.
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Genesis 19:37
And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same [is] the father of the Moabites unto this day.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.
WEB World English Bible
The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.
ASV American Standard Version
And the first-born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and the first-born beareth a son, and calleth his name Moab; he is father of Moab unto this day;
Surrounding context — Genesis 19
34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, [and] lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same [is] the father of the Moabites unto this day.
38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same [is] the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
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Deuteronomy 2:9And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land [for] a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot [for] a possession.Deuteronomy 2:19And [when] thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon [any] possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot [for] a possession.Deuteronomy 23:3An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:Judges 3:1-31Now these [are] the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, [even] as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan;2 Kings 3:1-27Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.Numbers 21:29Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.Numbers 22:1-41And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan [by] Jericho.2 Samuel 8:1-18And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Methegammah out of the hand of the Philistines.Ruth 4:10Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye [are] witnesses this day.Numbers 24:1-25And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
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