Er and Onan Die

Genesis 38:6-11

Y'hudah took a wife for 'Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

But 'Er, Y'hudah's firstborn, was evil from ADONAI's perspective, so ADONAI killed him.

Y'hudah said to Onan, "Go and sleep with your brother's wife - perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and preserve your brother's line of descent."

However, Onan knew that the child would not count as his; so whenever he had intercourse with his brother's wife, he spilled the semen on the ground, so as not to give his brother offspring.

What he did was evil from ADONAI's perspective, so he killed him too.

Then Y'hudah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, "Stay a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up"; for he thought, "I don't want him to die too, like his brothers." So Tamar went and lived at home with her father.

Er and Onan Die

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