Why not talk about love in this passage? Maybe even cheap bribe? I, being a secular Jew was struck by the idea that LORD promised material reward in return for complete and absolute devotion to him. Make him altars, worship him for in return getting land and wealth. According to the online dictionary, such acts meet the definition of bribe:
1. Something, such as money or a favor, offered or given to a person in a position of trust to influence that person's views or conduct.
Who would have ever considered the possibility of the absolute creator bribing people? Shame on you for this unholy conduct! Bribing Abram for him to make him an altar, pray for him and follow his orders in return for land and cattle. Then bribing the servant to go to Abram and make him a child in return to “spread her seed” and some wealth. Lame.
And as for love. I consider the idea of your husband mating with another woman to have kids relatively weird. Look at today’s people it is an option for insemination, an alternative for those who aren’t “blessed with fertility”. That could be love from behalf of the one willing to watch her/his mate do such acts, but isn’t it hypocritical for the corresponding side to carry through.
For me, some textual ideas don’t make any kind of sense, what happened to values, the ability to think for yourself, freedom of worship, of choice? Yes, these are other times.
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