I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the Lord’s angel added, “so that they will be too numerous to count.”

Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

Come, let’s make our father drunk with wine so we can have sexual relations with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too.”

Because you have obeyed me, all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.’”

Then Judah said to Onan, “Have sexual relations with your brother’s wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her so that you may raise up a descendant for your brother.”

He brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters – all his descendants.

they must wash their hands and their feet so that they do not die. And this will be a perpetual ordinance for them and for their descendants throughout their generations.”

Now, if such a carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean,

but if water is put on the seed and such a carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and there is a seminal emission, they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

This is the law of the one with a discharge: the one who has a seminal emission and becomes unclean by it,

You must not have sexual intercourse with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.

You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord!

“‘Any tithe of the land, from the grain of the land or from the fruit of the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord.

But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free of ill effects and will be able to bear children.

He will pour the water out of his buckets, and their descendants will be like abundant water; their king will be greater than Agag, and their kingdom will be exalted.

You must be certain to tithe all the produce of your seed that comes from the field year after year.

You must not plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed; otherwise the entire yield, both of the seed you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled.

“You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.