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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

  1. "Tamar," Women in the Bible, n.d. Accessed January 9, 2009.
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