Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.” 9 But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother. 10 What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also.
It would be interesting to hear a summon on this instead of the usual sadaka chieth.
@Liberty explain this using a well-labelled diagram.
venye it’s get twisted back to how men of nowadays prey on people’s wives and how you need to repent and give some tithe for the cleansing as a sign of denying yourself earthly goods hata hautaamini but utajipata umekopa branch utoe io sadaka ya cleansing
Deuteronomy 25:5-6 "If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.
Genesis 38:1-11 At that time, Judah left his brothers and went down to stay with a man of Adullam named Hirah. There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and made love to her; she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, who was named Er. She conceived again and gave birth to a son and named him Onan. She gave birth to still another son and named him Shelah. It was at Kezib that she gave birth to him. Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death. Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.” But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother. What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also. Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s household until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, just like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s household.
Onan was basically killed because he did not want to fulfill the practice of a Levirate marriage. It is basically when a younger brother of a deceased man would produce an heir for him. He chose to marry Tamar because of receiving his brother’s property and inheritence. However, if he had a child with the woman, the child would inherit everything. So he thought he could bypass this by simply not getting her pregnant. We all know how that ended, haha. Also if Onan had made a child for his elder brother Er, it would have precedence over him as clan head. His actions were motivated by greed and a desire for power.
It was allowed by God for a brother to take once brother dead wife who has no son in Torah as seeing in (Deut 25). The wickedness of Onan was sleeping with his brother’s wife not wanting to give her a son
The most important commandment is “be fruitful and ye multiply”. Because without reproduction, our species will be extinct. That’s why if a man couldn’t get a child and he died. His brother could sire a child for him
A man never dies because he cannot get a child - that is a lie! There are many men who were childless in the Bible and lived. Most important command is 1. Love God, 2. Love humans
Yeah… I meant if a man died childless. Wrong placement of full stop. At the end of the day, if we do not reproduce the human race will be extinct. Without a human race, we can’t love the Lord with all our hearts and love our neighbors as we love ourselves