Genesis 38:1-9 ▼

1 And it fortuned at that tyme that Iudas went from his brethren and gatt him to a man called Hira of Odollam

2 and there he sawe the doughter of a man called Sua a Canaanyte. And he toke her ad went in vnto her.

3 And she conceaued and bare a sonne and called his name Er.

4 And she conceaued agayne and bare a sonne and called him Onan.

5 And she conceaued the thyrde tyme and bare a sonne whom she called Scla: and he was at Chesyb when she bare hem.

6 And Iudas gaue Er his eldest sonne a wife whose name was Thamar.

7 But this Er Iudas eldest sonne was wicked in the syghte of the LORde wherfore the LORde slewe him.

8 Than sayde Iudas vnto Onan: goo in to thi brothers wyfe and Marie her and styrre vp seed vnto thy brother.

9 And when Onan perceaued that the seed shulde not be his: therfore when he went in to his brothers wife he spylled it on the grounde because he wold not geue seed vnto his brother.