Genesis 19:32

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 

Genesis 27:28

27:28 May God give you

the dew of the sky ⁵ 

and the richness ⁶  of the earth,

and plenty of grain and new wine.

Genesis 49:11

49:11 Binding his foal to the vine,

and his colt to the choicest vine,

he will wash ⁷  his garments in wine,

his robes in the blood of grapes.

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¹ tn Heb “drink wine.”

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

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

⁴ tn Heb “and we will keep alive from our father descendants.”

sn For a discussion of the cultural background of the daughters’ desire to preserve our family line see F. C. Fensham, “The Obliteration of the Family as Motif in the Near Eastern Literature,” AION 10 (1969): 191-99.

⁵ tn Heb “and from the dew of the sky.”

⁶ tn Heb “and from the fatness.”

⁷ tn The perfect verbal form is used rhetorically, describing coming events as though they have already taken place.