And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.
and she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Onan;
And she again conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Onan.
Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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And she conceived again, and bare a son,.... As soon as she well could: and she called his name Onan; the first son Judah gave the name to, but his wife named this, so called from grief or sorrow; the reason of it, according to the above Targum, was,"because his father would mourn for him;''he was a Benoni, see Gen 35:18, whose sin and immature death caused sorrow.
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Numbers 26:19The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.
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The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanite. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, who put him to death.
About that time, Judah left his brothers and settled near a man named Hirah, an Adullamite.
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Genesis 46:12The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
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But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; so the LORD put him to death.
And once more she conceived and gave birth to a son and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.
What he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so He put Onan to death as well.
The sons of Shelah son of Judah:
But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
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The verses this one reaches2
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.
