And Sarai said to Abram, See, now, Jehovah has kept me from bearing; go in now to my slave-girl; perhaps I may be built up from her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
And he looked toward the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain. And he saw. And, behold, the smoke of the country went up like the smoke of a furnace.
The giants were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore to them; they were mighty ones which existed from ancient time, the men of name.
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothing, only let your name be called on us; collect our shame.
If brothers live together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the one who died shall not go outside to a man, a stranger; her brother-in-law shall go in to her, and take her to himself for a wife, and shall perform the duty of the levirate;