38:8 Then Judah said to Onan, “Have sexual relations with 1 your brother’s wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her so that you may raise 2 up a descendant for your brother.” 3 38:9 But Onan knew that the child 4 would not be considered his. 5 So whenever 6 he had sexual relations with 7 his brother’s wife, he withdrew prematurely 8 so as not to give his brother a descendant.
38:11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until Shelah my son grows up.” For he thought, 9 “I don’t want him to die like his brothers.” 10 So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.