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The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
— Genesis 19:34
So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
— Genesis 19:35
Thus both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.
— Genesis 19:36
Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought such tremendous guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done.”
— Genesis 20:9
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
— Genesis 34:2
But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.
— Genesis 34:13
“We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.
— Genesis 34:14
But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
— Genesis 34:31
While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
— Genesis 35:22
But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; so the LORD put him to death.
— Genesis 38:7
But Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brother’s wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.
— Genesis 38:9
What he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so He put Onan to death as well.
— Genesis 38:10