Genesis 38:1-9 ▼

1 And it comes to pass, at that time, that Judah goes down from his brothers, and turns aside to a man, an Adullamite, whose name [is] Hirah;

2 and Judah sees there the daughter of a man, a Canaanite, whose name [is] Shuah, and takes her, and goes in to her.

3 And she conceives, and bears a son, and he calls his name Er;

4 and she conceives again, and bears a son, and calls his name Onan;

5 and she adds again, and bears a son, and calls his name Shelah; and he was in Chezib in her bearing him.

6 And Judah takes a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name [is] Tamar;

7 and Er, Judah’s firstborn, is evil in the eyes of YHWH, and YHWH puts him to death.

8 And Judah says to Onan, “Go in to the wife of your brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to your brother”;

9 and Onan knows that the seed is not [reckoned] his; and it has come to pass, if he has gone in to his brother’s wife, that he has destroyed [it] to the earth, so as not to give seed to his brother;