Genesis 19:37 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³⁷ The first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ 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

³⁷ 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)

³⁷ 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

³⁷ The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the ancestor of today’s Moabites.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ 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

³⁷ And the elder bore a son, and called his name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

Genesis 19:37 Cross References

Genesis 19:36

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

Psalm 83:9

Do to them as thou didst to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,

Zephaniah 2:8

“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.

Numbers 21:29

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.

Deuteronomy 2:19

and when you approach the frontier of the sons of Ammon, do not harass them or contend with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.’

Deuteronomy 2:9

And the Lord said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot for a possession.’

Deuteronomy 23:3

“No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none belonging to them shall enter the assembly of the Lord for ever;

Ruth 4:10

Also Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brethren and from the gate of his native place; you are witnesses this day.”

1 Samuel 14:47

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 put them to the worse.