NSB(i)
1 At that time Judah left his brothers and went to stay with a man named Hirah, who was from the town of Adullam.
2 Judah met a young Canaanite woman there whose father was named Shua. He married her.
3 Shua bore him a son, whom he named Er.
4 She became pregnant again and gave birth to another son and named him Onan.
5 She had another son and named him Shelah. Judah was at Achzib when the boy was born.
6 For his first son Er, Judah got a wife whose name was Tamar.
7 Er was an evil man. It displeased Jehovah. So Jehovah killed him.
8 Then Judah said to Er’s brother Onan: »Go sleep with your brother’s widow. Fulfill your obligation to her as her husband’s brother. That way your brother may have descendants.«
9 Onan knew that the children would not belong to him. So when he had intercourse with his brother’s widow, he let the semen spill on the ground, assuring that there would be no children for his brother.
10 What he did displeased Jehovah. So Jehovah killed him also.