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8 Then Judah said to Onan, |Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.| 9 But Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his. So it happened when he slept with his brother’s wife that he released his semen on the ground, so that he would not produce offspring for his brother. 10 And what he did was evil in the sight of God, so he killed him also. 11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, |Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah is grown up.| For he thought, |I do not want him to die too, like his brothers. |So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house. Genesis 38:8-11, New Heart English Bible. Public domain.
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