Then God said, &#8220;I now<n id="1" /> give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">O children<n id="1" /> of Israel, God&#8217;s<n id="2" /> servant,p> <p class="poetry">you descendants of Jacob, God&#8217;s<n id="3" /> chosen ones!p>

<p class="poetry">A whole generation<n id="1" /> will serve him;p> <p class="poetry">they will tell the next generation about the sovereign Lord.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The godly bask in the light;p> <p class="poetry">the morally upright experience joy.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">O children<n id="1" /> of Abraham,<n id="2" /> God&#8217;s<n id="3" /> servant,p> <p class="poetry">you descendants<n id="4" /> of Jacob, God&#8217;s<n id="5" /> chosen ones!p>

<p class="poetry">All the descendants of Israel will be vindicated by the <sc>Lordsc>p> <p class="poetry">and will boast in him.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">You loyal followers of the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="1" /> praise him!p> <p class="poetry">All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!p> <p class="poetry">All you descendants of Israel, stand in awe of him!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">But approach, you sons of omen readers,p> <p class="poetry">you offspring of adulteresses and prostitutes!<n id="1" />p>

Abram added,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Since<n id="2" /> you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Come, let&#8217;s make our father drunk with wine<n id="1" /> so we can have sexual relations<n id="2" /> with him and preserve<n id="3" /> our family line through our father.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Judah said to Onan, &#8220;Have sexual relations with<n id="1" /> your brother&#8217;s wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her so that you may raise<n id="2" /> up a descendant for your brother.&#8221;<n id="3" />

Now, if such a carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown,<n id="1" /> it is clean,

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

When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and there is a seminal emission,<n id="1" /> they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.p>

This is the law of the one with a discharge: the one who has a seminal emission<n id="1" /> and becomes unclean by it,<n id="2" />

But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free of ill effects<n id="1" /> and will be able to bear children.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.

Whenever the Israelites planted their crops,<n id="1" /> the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them.<n id="2" />

I will humiliate David&#8217;s descendants because of this,<n id="1" /> but not forever.&#8221;<n id="2" />

Those truly of Israelite descent<n id="1" /> separated from all the foreigners,<n id="2" /> standing and confessing their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.<n id="3" />