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Onan
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Onan (Hebrew: אונן, ʼŌnān; "strong") (Abib 2267 AMApril 1736 BC
Iyar 2024 He
Abib 2267 AM—Tammuz 2281 AMJuly 1722 BC
Av 2038 He
Tammuz 2281 AM) was the second-born son of Judah by an unknown Canaanitish woman.
Genealogy
| Jacob | Leah | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Judah | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Er | Tamar | Onan | Shelah | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Narrative
Onan's older brother Er had married Tamar, behaved wickedly, and died at the hand of God. So Judah ordered Onan to marry Tamar and engender a son, to satisfy the levirate obligation to her. Onan did not want to do this, so he practiced a form of contraception that involved withdrawing from the woman to prevent fertilization. For this God put him to death as well.[1] (Genesis 38:8-10 )
Onan's wicked act was an act of fraud against his wife, and demonstrates one evil of self-gratification: the disconnection of the sexual act from its intended purpose, hence an interruption of the divinely-ordained order.
References
- ↑ "Tamar," Women in the Bible, n.d. Accessed January 9, 2009.
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