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Genesis 38:8-10
Living Bible
Genesis 38:8-10
Living Bible
8 Then Judah said to Er’s brother, Onan, “You must marry Tamar, as our law requires of a dead man’s brother; so that her sons from you will be your brother’s heirs.”
9 But Onan was not willing to have a child who would not be counted as his own, and so, although he married her,[a] whenever he went in to sleep with her, he spilled the sperm on the bed to prevent her from having a baby which would be his brother’s. 10 So far as the Lord was concerned, it was very wrong of him to deny a child to his deceased brother, so he killed him, too.
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- Genesis 38:9 although he married her, implied. he spilled the sperm on the bed, literally, “spilled it on the ground.”
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