Judah’s Er and Onan – Genesis – The Brick Bible

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Judah left his brothers to stay with an Adullamite man named Hirah.

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There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua.

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Judah acquired her as a wife.

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And he had sex with her.

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She became pregnant and had a son. Judah named him Er.

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She became pregnant again and had a son. She named him Onan.

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Judah acquired a wife for his firstborn Er, and her name was Tamar.

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But Judah's firstborn Er was offensive to Yahweh, and Yahweh killed him.

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Judah said to Onan, "Have sex with your brother's wife, performing the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise offspring for your brother."

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But knowing that the child would not be his, whenever Onan had sex with his brother's wife, he would spill his semen on the ground to avoid giving offspring to his brother.

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What he did offended Yahweh, and Yahweh killed him too.

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