37 The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab[1] ; he is the father of the Moabites of today.

Other Translations of Genesis 19:37

King James Version

37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

English Standard Version

37 The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab.Moab sounds like the Hebrew for from father He is the father of the Moabites to this day.

The Message

37 The older daughter had a son and named him Moab, the ancestor of the present-day Moabites.

New King James Version

37 The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

New Living Translation

37 When the older daughter gave birth to a son, she named him Moab. He became the ancestor of the nation now known as the Moabites.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Genesis 19:37

Commentary on Genesis 19:30-38

(Read Genesis 19:30-38)

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 mountain, alone, and, as he thought, out of the way of temptation, is shamefully overtaken. Let him that thinks he stands high, and stands firm, take heed lest he fall. See the peril of drunkenness; it is not only a great sin itself, but lets in many sins, which bring a lasting wound and dishonour. Many a man does that, when he is drunk, which, when he is sober, he could not think of without horror. See also the peril of temptation, even from relations and friends, whom we love and esteem, and expect kindness from. We must dread a snare, wherever we are, and be always upon our guard. No excuse can be made for the daughters, nor for Lot. Scarcely any account can be given of the affair but this, The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? From the silence of the Scripture concerning Lot henceforward, learn that drunkenness, as it makes men forgetful, so it makes them to be forgotten.