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(28) And God blessed them; and God said unto them: ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it;

(1) Now Sarai Abram’s wife bore him no children; and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. (2) And Sarai said unto Abram: ‘Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing; go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; it may be that I shall be builded up through her.’ And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. (3) And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. (4) And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

(21) And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD let Himself be entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. (22) And the children struggled together within her; and she said: ‘If it be so, wherefore do I live?’ And she went to inquire of the LORD.

(1) And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and she said unto Jacob: ‘Give me children, or else I die.’ (2) And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel; and he said: ‘Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?’ (3) And she said: ‘Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may be builded up through her.’ (4) And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife; and Jacob went in unto her. (5) And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

(22) And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. (23) And she conceived, and bore a son, and said: ‘God hath taken away my reproach.’ (24) And she called his name Joseph, saying: ‘The LORD add to me another son.’

(1) It is prohibited to let off or remove seed needlessly and it is a sin from the Torah. For this reason a man should not trample his insides and sprinkle [it] outside [of a woman] and and he will not raise a daughter that is appropriate to have children. (2)

(6) And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar. (7) And Er, Judah’s first-born, was evil in the eyes of the LORD; and the LORD slew him. (8) And Judah said unto Onan: ‘Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother unto her, and raise up seed to thy brother.’ (9) And Onan knew that the seed would not be his; and it came to pass when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.