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Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn. Her name was Tamar. It turned out that Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord killed him.

Then Judah said to Onan, “Go to your brother’s wife. Perform your duty for her as the brother of her deceased husband and provide offspring[a] for your brother.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 38:8 Literally seed, which alludes both to semen and to the child that is produced from it