Then Judah said to Onan, ‘Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and produce offspring for your brother.’
Deuteronomy 25:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so his name will not be blotted out from Israel. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the firstborn son shall succeed to the name of the dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel. American Standard Version (1901) And it shall be, that the first-born that she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother that is dead, that his name be not blotted out of Israel. Common English Bible The brother-in-law will name the oldest male son that she bears after his dead brother so that his brother’s legacy will not be forgotten in Israel. Catholic Public Domain Version And the first son from her, he shall call by his brother's name, so that his name will not be abolished from Israel. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the first son he shall have of her he shall call by his name: that his name be not abolished out of Israel. |
Then Judah said to Onan, ‘Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and produce offspring for your brother.’
But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he released his semen on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.
his father and mother are to take hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his home town.
The Lord will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, his anger and jealousy will burn against that person, and every curse written in this scroll will descend on him. The Lord will blot out his name under heaven,
Leave me alone, and I will destroy them and blot out their name under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.”