![]() ![]() If a man died before providing sons to his wife, it was the duty of his brothers to marry her and to give her sons. Go in to your brother’s wife and marry her, and raise up an heir to your brother: This was done according to the custom of levirate marriage (later codified into law in Deuteronomy 25:5-10). And the thing which he did displeased the LORD therefore He killed him also.Ī. (8-10) Onan’s refusal to raise up offspring for Tamar.Īnd Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife and marry her, and raise up an heir to your brother.” But Onan knew that the heir would not be his and it came to pass, when he went in to his brother’s wife, that he emitted on the ground, lest he should give an heir to his brother. Growing up with a father from such a troubled family and with a mother who was a Canaanite did not help Er to live a godly life. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD killed him: We are never told what Er’s wickedness was, but obviously it was evil enough that God brought immediate judgment upon him. Her name was Tamar: It is not surprising that Judah chose a Canaanite wife for his son Er, since he himself was married to a Canaanite.ī. But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD killed him.Ī. Then Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. (6-7) Er’s marriage to Tamar and his death. God had a plan to bring them out of Canaan. Their future looked like a combination of corruption and assimilation. The Canaanite neighbors were rapidly corrupting the family of Israel. Consistently, marriage with Canaanite women had been discouraged among the patriarchs and those connected to them (Genesis 24:3, 28:1, 28:8). And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua, and he married her: Through an ungodly and unwise marriage to a Canaanite woman, Judah fathered three sons: Er, Onan, and Shelah. He was the one who suggested they sell Joseph into slavery (Genesis 37:26).ī. ![]() Judah departed from his brothers: Judah, the fourth-born son of Jacob through Leah (Reuben, Simeon, and Levi were before him), had not yet distinguished himself as someone great among his brothers. ![]() And she conceived yet again and bore a son, and called his name Shelah. She conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name Onan. So she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er. And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua, and he married her and went in to her. It came to pass at that time that Judah departed from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite whose name was Hirah. Tamar’s widowhood and Judah’s unfairness. Genesis 38 – Tamar and the Sin of Judah A. ![]()
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