Genesis 38:9
But Onan, seeing that the offspring would not be his, went in to his brother's wife, but let his seed go on to the earth, so that he might not get offspring for his brother.
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Genesis 38:9
But Onan, seeing that the offspring would not be his, went in to his brother's wife, but let his seed go on to the earth, so that he might not get offspring for his brother.
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Genesis 38:1
Now at that time, Judah went away from his brothers and became the friend of a man of Adullam named Hirah.
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Genesis 38:2
And there he saw the daughter of a certain man of Canaan named Shua, and took her as his wife.
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Genesis 38:3
And she gave birth to a son, and he gave him the name Er.
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Genesis 38:4
And again she gave birth to a son, and he gave him the name Onan.
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Genesis 38:5
Then she had another son, to whom she gave the name Shelah; she was at Chezib when the birth took place.
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Genesis 38:11
Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.
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