Genesis 19:32-35

19:32 Come, let’s make our father drunk with wine ¹  so we can have sexual relations ²  with him and preserve ³  our family line through our father.” ⁴ 

19:33 So that night they made their father drunk with wine, ⁵  and the older daughter ⁶  came and had sexual relations with her father. ⁷  But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up. ⁸  19:34 So in the morning the older daughter ⁹  said to the younger, “Since I had sexual relations with my father last night, let’s make him drunk again tonight. ¹⁰  Then you go and have sexual relations with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.” ¹¹  19:35 So they made their father drunk ¹²  that night as well, and the younger one came and had sexual relations with him. ¹³  But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up. ¹⁴ 

Exodus 32:21

32:21 Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?”

Habakkuk 2:15

2:15 “You who force your neighbor to drink wine ¹⁵  are as good as dead ¹⁶  –

you who make others intoxicated by forcing them to drink from the bowl of your furious anger, ¹⁷ 

so you can look at their genitals. ¹⁸ 

[19:32]  ¹ tn Heb “drink wine.”

[19:32]  ² tn Heb “and we will lie down.” The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive is subordinated to the preceding cohortative and indicates purpose/result.

[19:32]  ³ tn Or “that we may preserve.” Here the cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates their ultimate goal.

[19:32]  ⁴ tn Heb “and we will keep alive from our father descendants.”

[19:33]  ⁵ tn Heb “drink wine.”

[19:33]  ⁶ tn Heb “the firstborn.”

[19:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the firstborn came and lied down with her father.” The expression “lied down with” here and in the following verses is a euphemism for sexual relations.

[19:33]  ⁸ tn Heb “and he did not know when she lay down and when she arose.”

[19:34]  ⁹ tn Heb “the firstborn.”

[19:34]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Look, I lied down with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight.”

[19:34]  ¹¹ tn Heb “And go, lie down with him and we will keep alive from our father descendants.”

[19:35]  ¹² tn Heb “drink wine.”

[19:35]  ¹³ tn Heb “lied down with him.”

[19:35]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “And he did not know when she lied down and when she arose.”

[2:15]  ¹⁵ tn No direct object is present after “drink” in the Hebrew text. “Wine” is implied, however, and has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[2:15]  ¹⁶ tn On the term הוֹי (hoy) see the note on the word “dead” in v. 6.

[2:15]  ¹⁷ tc Heb “pouring out your anger and also making drunk”; or “pouring out your anger and [by] rage making drunk.” The present translation assumes that the final khet (ח) on מְסַפֵּחַ (misapeakh, “pouring”) is dittographic and that the form should actually be read מִסַּף (missaf, “from a bowl”).

[2:15]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “their nakedness,” a euphemism.