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But Abram said, "O Lord GOD, what good will your gifts be, if I keep on being childless and have as my heir the steward of my house, Eliezer?" (Genesis 15, 2)
Abram continued, "See, you have given me no offspring, and so one of my servants will be my heir." (Genesis 15, 3)
Then the word of the LORD came to him: "No, that one shall not be your heir; your own issue shall be your heir." (Genesis 15, 4)
Rachel and Leah answered him: "Have we still an heir's portion in our father's house? (Genesis 31, 14)
Boaz continued, "Once you acquire the field from Naomi, you must take also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of the late heir, and raise up a family for the departed on his estate." (Ruth 4, 5)
Then the women said to Naomi, "Blessed is the LORD who has not failed to provide you today with an heir! May he become famous in Israel! (Ruth 4, 14)
And when your time comes and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your heir after you, sprung from your loins, and I will make his kingdom firm. (2 Samuel 7, 12)
Then the whole clan confronted your servant and demanded: 'Give up the one who killed his brother. We must put him to death for the life of his brother whom he has slain; we must extinguish the heir also.' Thus they will quench my remaining hope and leave my husband neither name nor posterity upon the earth." (2 Samuel 14, 7)
So he took his first-born, his heir apparent, and offered him as a holocaust upon the wall. The wrath against Israel was so great that they gave up the siege and returned to their own land. (2 Kings 3, 27)
And that I have never defiled my own name or my father's name in the land of my exile. "I am my father's only daughter, and he has no other child to make his heir, Nor does he have a close kinsman or other relative whom I might bide my time to marry. I have already lost seven husbands; why then should I live any longer? But if it please you, Lord, not to slay me, look favorably upon me and have pity on me; never again let me hear these insults!" (Tobit 3, 15)
Then I saw all those who are to live and move about under the sun with the heir apparent who will succeed to his place. (Ecclesiastes 4, 15)
So also with the woman who is unfaithful to her husband and offers as heir her son by a stranger. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 22)
