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So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, Yahweh has shut my womb from bearing children. (A)Please go in to my servant-woman; perhaps I will [a]obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

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  1. Genesis 16:2 Lit be built from her

So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. Then she saw that she had conceived, so her mistress became [a]contemptible in her sight.

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  1. Genesis 16:4 Or cursed, cf. 12:3

Then Judah said to Onan, “(A)Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform your duty as a brother-in-law to her, and raise up a seed for your brother.”

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“If brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, then the wife of the one who died shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. (A)Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

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