"And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same {is} the father of the Moabites unto this day." — Genesis 19:37

Genesis 19:37 · KJV

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

— Genesis 19:37

Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same {is} the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

Genesis 19 — Context

And 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.

Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

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

And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same {is} the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 2:9

And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land {for} a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot {for} a possession. {Distress...: or, Use no hostility against Moab}

Deuteronomy 23:3

An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:

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, and reigned twelve years.

2 Samuel 8:1-18

And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Methegammah out of the hand of the Philistines. {Methegammah: or, the bridle of Ammah}

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 upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye {are} witnesses this day.

Numbers 22:1-41

And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan {by} Jericho.

Deuteronomy 2:19

And {when} thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon {any} possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot {for} a possession.

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.