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It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father`s seed."
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A Premeditated Sin
Commentators explain that the older daughter's proposal to the younger was a deliberate, premeditated act. Having succeeded the first night, she encourages her sister to repeat the process. Their stated goal was "that we may preserve seed of our father," a desperate and sinful plan to continue their family line.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
גשׁ־ < הלאה (gesh - hāl'âh), meaning “approach to a distant point,” or “stand back.”
סנורים (san'evērı̂ym
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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