What Does Genesis 19:31 Mean in the King James?
And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
They turn their limited horizon into a verdict about the whole earth.
THE MEANING
Their words say that their father is old and that no man remains anywhere for sexual union. They present sexual access to their father as the only remaining route within the human pattern they know.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The false certainty is that what they cannot see from where they are proves that no man exists anywhere.
THE ROOT
דֶּרֶךְ
derekh
GROWS FROM
דרך
To tread or step; a trodden course.
The phrase rendered “after the manner of all the earth” uses derekh, “way” or “course”: a human custom is pictured as a path people tread. That shared path becomes their frame for sexual union, even as they claim that every other possibility has vanished.
ALSO GROWS
dārakh: To tread, step, or march.
דָּרַךְ
The verb makes the “way” a track beneath the feet, something movement follows.
derekh: Way, road, course, or manner.
דֶּרֶךְ
In כְּדֶרֶךְ (k’derekh), “according to the way,” the verse presents a human custom as a shared course.
THE PATTERN
A limited vantage can make apparent absence sound like universal absence.
And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.THE THREAD
I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;This verse repeats the Hebrew phrase “the way of all the earth,” using derekh (דֶּרֶךְ), “way” or “course.” Here the phrase names the common path of death, extending the idea of a way shared by all beyond the human custom the daughters invoke.
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