Genesis 19:37 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The firstborn bore a son and named him Moab; he is the ancestor of the Moabites to this day. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The older bore a son, and named him Moab [of a father]; he is the father of the Moabites to this day. American Standard Version (1901) And the first-born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. Common English Bible The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the ancestor of today’s Moabites. Catholic Public Domain Version And the elder gave birth to a son, and she called his name Moab. He is the father of the Moabites, even to the present day. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the elder bore a son, and called his name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites unto this day. |
Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the Wadi Kishon,
I have heard the taunts of Moab and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my people and made boasts against their territory.
Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives and his daughters captives to an Amorite king, Sihon.
When you approach the frontier of the Ammonites, do not harass them or engage them in battle, for I will not give the land of the Ammonites to you as a possession, because I have given it to the descendants of Lot.’
the Lord said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab or engage them in battle, for I will not give you any of its land as a possession, since I have given Ar as a possession to the descendants of Lot.’
“No Ammonite or Moabite shall come into the assembly of the Lord even to the tenth generation. None of their descendants shall come into the assembly of the Lord forever,
I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, to maintain the dead man’s name on his inheritance, in order that the name of the dead may not be cut off from his kindred and from the gate of his native place; today you are witnesses.”
When Saul had taken the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side: against Moab, against the Ammonites, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines; wherever he turned he routed them.