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The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. The same is the father of the Moabites to this day.
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A Name That Tells a Story
Commentators unanimously explain that the name 'Moab' directly points to the son's incestuous origin. The name is generally understood to mean 'from a father.' By choosing this name, Lot's daughter was not hiding her sin but openly memorializing its source, creating a permanent record of the event for all future generations.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
גשׁ־ < הלאה (gesh - hāl'âh), meaning “approach to a distant point,” or “stand back.”
סנורים (san'evērı̂ym
19th Century
Anglican
Moab ... Ben-ammi. — Both these names suggest an incestuous origin, but the latter in a less repulsive way. “Son of my people” mea…
16th Century
Protestant
And the firstborn bore. This was a terrible blindness: the daughters of Lot, shaking off all feeling of shame, raised up a memorial of the…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the firstborn bore a son, and called his name Moab As if it was "Meab", from the father, as Aben Ezra, and so Jo…
See the peril of security. Lot, who kept chaste in Sodom, and was a mourner for the wickedness of the place, and a witness against it, when in the …
