² So Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. ^(A)Please have relations with my slave woman; perhaps I will ^[a]obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

⁴ Then he had relations with Hagar, and she conceived; and when Hagar became aware that she had conceived, her mistress was insignificant in her sight.

⁸ Then Judah said to Onan, “^(A)Have relations with your brother’s wife and perform your duty as a brother-in-law to her, and raise up a ^[a]child for your brother.”

⁵ “When brothers live together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. ^(A)Her husband’s brother shall have relations with her and take her to himself as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.