Bible Cross References
Er and Onan
Genesis 38:1-10
1
About that time Judah left his brothers and went to stay with a man named Hirah, who was from the town of Adullam.
2
There Judah met a young Canaanite woman whose father was named Shua. He married her,
3
and she bore him a son, whom he named Er.
4
She became pregnant again and bore another son and named him Onan.
5
Again she had a 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's conduct was evil, and it displeased the LORD, so the LORD killed him.
8
Then Judah said to Er's brother Onan, "Go and sleep with your brother's widow. Fulfill your obligation to her as her husband's brother, so that your brother may have descendants."
9
But 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, so that there would be no children for his brother.
10
What he did displeased the LORD, and the LORD killed him also.
Genesis 46:12
Judah and his sons: Shelah, Perez, and Zerah. (Judah's other sons, Er and Onan, had died in Canaan.) Perez' sons were Hezron and Hamul.
1 Chronicles 2:3-8
3
Judah had five sons in all. By his wife Bathshua, a Canaanite, he had three sons: Er, Onan, and Shelah. His oldest son, Er, was so evil that the LORD killed him.
4
By his daughter-in-law Tamar, Judah had two more sons, Perez and Zerah.
5
Perez had two sons, Hezron and Hamul.
6
His brother Zerah had five sons: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Darda.
7
Achan son of Carmi, one of Zerah's descendants, brought disaster on the people of Israel by keeping loot that had been devoted to God.
8
Ethan had one son, Azariah.