5 She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.
6 Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
7 Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him.
8 Judah said to Onan, 'Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother.'
9 Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.
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