And the first born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites to this day. Treasury of Scripture A.M. 2108. B.C. 1896. Moab. This name is generally interpreted of the father; from mo, of, and av, a father. Moabites. Numbers 21:29 Woe to you, Moab! you are undone, O people of Chemosh: he has given his sons that escaped, and his daughters... 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... Deuteronomy 2:9,19 And the LORD said to me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle... Deuteronomy 23:3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD... Judges 3:1-31 Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan... Ruth 4:10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance... 2 Samuel 8:1-18 And after this it came to pass that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them... 2 Kings 3:1-27 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah...
Context Lot and his Daughters
30And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelled in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelled in a cave, he and his two daughters. 31And the firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth: 32Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 33And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 34And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said to the younger, Behold, I lay last night with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go you in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 35And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 36Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. 37And the first born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites to this day. 38And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon to this day. Parallel Verses 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.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the elder bore a son, and called his name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
Darby 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.
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.
Young's Literal Translation
and the first-born beareth a son, and calleth his name Moab; he is father of Moab unto this day;
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