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Genesis 38:10

Judgment

8 Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”

9 But Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brother’s wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.

What he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so He put Onan to death as well.

11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

12 After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.

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Compare

BSB
What he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so He put Onan to death as well.
KJV
And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.
WEB
The thing which he did was evil in the LORD’s sight, and he killed him also.
ASV
And the thing which he did was evil in the sight of Jehovah: and he slew him also.
DARBY
And the thing which he did was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and he slew him also.
BLB
And what he did was evil in the eyes of YHWH, and He killed him also.
ÅB
Men det var ondt i Herrens øyne det han gjorde, og han lot også ham dø.
OTB
Det han gjorde var ondt i Herrens øyne, så Herren lot også ham dø.
B1930
Men det var ondt i Herrens øine det han gjorde, og han lot også ham dø.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Numbers 11:1

    Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

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  • Genesis 46:12

    The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.

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  • Proverbs 14:32

    The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

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  • 1 Chronicles 21:7

    This command was also evil in the sight of God; so He struck Israel.

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  • Numbers 26:19

    The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.

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  • Haggai 1:13

    Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, delivered the message of the LORD to the people: “I am with you,” declares the LORD.

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  • Jeremiah 44:4

    Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’

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  • 2 Samuel 11:27

    And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.

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