If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and children belong to her master, and he is to go out by himself.

She bears up under everything; believes the best in all; there is no limit to her hope, and never will she fall.

Then she went and sat by herself about a distance of a bowshot away, because she kept saying to herself, "I can't bear to watch the child die!" That's why she sat a short distance away, crying aloud and weeping.

Rachel responded, "Here's my handmaid Bilhah. Go have sex with her. She can bear children on my knees so I can have children through her."

"If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, so that he exposes her nakedness and she exposes his nakedness, it's a shameful thing. They are to be eliminated from contact with their people in front of their people's children. He has exposed his sister's nakedness. He'll continue to bear responsibility for his iniquity.

But if the woman isn't defiled, then she is to be freed and will be able to bear children.

The firstborn whom she will bear will continue the name of the dead brother, so his name will not be erased from Israel.