Bastards

A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly.

But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a prostitute: and Gilead became the father of Jephthah.

Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying, — read the full passage →

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman.

At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look at. — read the full passage →

Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.

Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.