<P> Some Hebrew scholars believe that yada, unlike the English word know, requires the existence of a "personal and intimate relationship". For this reason, many of the most popular of the 20th century translations, including the New International Version, the New King James Version, and the New Living Translation, translate yada as "have sex with" or "know...carnally" in Gen 19: 5 </P> <P> Those who favor the non-sexual interpretation argue against a denotation of sexual behavior in this context, noting that while the Hebrew word for know appears over 900 times in the Hebrew Scriptures, only 1% (13--14 times) of those references are clearly used as a euphemism for realizing sexual intimacy . Instead, those who hold to this interpretation see the demand to know as demanding the right to interrogate the strangers . </P> <P> Countering this is the observation that one of the examples of know meaning to know sexually occurs when Lot responds to the Gen 19: 5 request, by offering his daughters for rape, only three verses later in the same narrative: </P> <P> Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing ...--Genesis 19: 8 </P>

Two images of sin in the old testament