Sarai said to Avram, *See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her.* Avram listened to the voice of Sarai.
He looked toward Sedom and `Amorah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
The Nefilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, *We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.*
If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.