Genesis Chapter 19 verse 37 Holy Bible
And the first-born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
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And the older daughter had a son, and she gave him the name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites to this day.
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And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites to this day.
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And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
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And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites to this day.
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The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. The same is the father of the Moabites to this day.
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and the first-born beareth a son, and calleth his name Moab; he `is' father of Moab unto this day;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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.