Genesis 19:37
New International Version
The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab; he is the father of the Moabites of today.

New Living Translation
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.

English Standard Version
The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.

Berean Standard Bible
The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.

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

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

New American Standard Bible
The firstborn gave birth to a son, and named him Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

NASB 1995
The firstborn bore a son, and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

NASB 1977
And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

Amplified Bible
The firstborn gave birth to a son, and named him Moab (from father); he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

Christian Standard Bible
The firstborn gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The firstborn gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.

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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the elder woman bore a son and she called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites until today.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the elder bore a son and called his name Moab, saying, He is of my father. This is the father of the Moabites to this present day.

Contemporary English Version
The older daughter named her son Moab, and he is the ancestor of the Moabites.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the elder bore a son, and called his name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The older one gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the ancestor of the Moabites of today.

Good News Translation
The older daughter had a son, whom she named Moab. He was the ancestor of the present-day Moabites.

International Standard Version
The firstborn gave birth to a son and named him Moab, and he is the ancestor of the Moabites to this day.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab--the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

Literal Standard Version
and the firstborn bears a son and calls his name Moab: he [is] father of Moab to this day.

Majority Standard Bible
The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.

New American Bible
The firstborn gave birth to a son whom she named Moab, saying, “From my father.” He is the ancestor of the Moabites of today.

NET Bible
The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the ancestor of the Moabites of today.

New Revised Standard Version
The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab; he is the ancestor of the Moabites to this day.

New Heart English Bible
The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites to this day.

World English Bible
The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.

Young's Literal Translation
and the first-born beareth a son, and calleth his name Moab; he is father of Moab unto this day;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Lot and His Daughters
36Thus both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. 37The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today. 38The younger daughter also gave birth to a son, and she named him Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites of today.…

Cross References
Genesis 19:36
Thus both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father.

Deuteronomy 2:9
Then the LORD said to me, "Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession."


Treasury of Scripture

And the first born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites to this day.

A.

Moabites.

Numbers 21:29
Woe 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 22:1-41
And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho…

Numbers 24:1-25
And 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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Genesis 19
1. Lot entertains two angels.
4. The vicious Sodomites are smitten with blindness.
12. Lot is warned, and in vain warns his sons-in-law.
15. He is directed to flee to the mountains, but obtains leave to go into Zoar.
24. Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed.
26. Lot's wife looks back and becomes a pillar of salt.
29. Lot dwells in a cave.
31. The incestuous origin of Moab and Ammon.














(37, 38) Moab . . . Ben-ammi.--Both these names suggest an incestuous origin, but the latter in a less repulsive way. "Son of my people" means one born of intercourse with her own kin and family. It is a striking proof of the vigour of the race of Terah, that from this lone cavern, and after the loss of all the wealth possessed by Lot, these two children were able to reduce to obedience the aborigines dwelling on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, and establish petty kingdoms there. Both Moabites and Ammonites have finally merged in the Arabs.

Verse 37. - And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab - Meab, from the father, alluding to his incestuous origin (LXX., which adds λέγουσα ἐκ τοῦ πατρός μοῦ; Augustine, Jerome, Delitzsch, Keil); though Mo (water, an Arabic euphemism for the semen virile) and ab has been advanced as a more correct derivation (Rosenmüller). The same is the father of the Moabites - who originally inhabited the country northeast of the Dead Sea, between the Jabbok and the Arnon (Deuteronomy 2:20), but were afterwards driven by the Amorites south of the Arnou - unto this day. This phrase, indicating a variable period from a few years to a few centuries (cf. Genesis 48:13; Exodus 10:6; Numbers 22:39; Joshua 22:3), cannot be regarded as a trace of post-Mosaic authorship (De Wette, et alii), since in Genesis it is always used of events which had taken place several centuries before the time of Moses, as in Genesis 26:33; 35:30; 47:26 (cf. Heil, 'Introduction,' part 1. § 2, div. 1, § 33).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The older [daughter]
הַבְּכִירָה֙ (hab·bə·ḵî·rāh)
Article | Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 1067: First-born (always of women)

gave birth to
וַתֵּ֤לֶד (wat·tê·leḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

a son
בֵּ֔ן (bên)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

and named
וַתִּקְרָ֥א (wat·tiq·rā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7121: To call, proclaim, read

him Moab.
מוֹאָ֑ב (mō·w·’āḇ)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4124: Moab -- a son of Lot,also his descendants and the territory where they settled

He
ה֥וּא (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

is the father
אֲבִֽי־ (’ă·ḇî-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1: Father

of the Moabites
מוֹאָ֖ב (mō·w·’āḇ)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4124: Moab -- a son of Lot,also his descendants and the territory where they settled

of
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

today.
הַיּֽוֹם׃ (hay·yō·wm)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day


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