6. And Judah taketh a wife for Er, his first-born, and her name [is] Tamar;
7. and Er, Judah's first-born, is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth put him to death.
8. And Judah saith to Onan, `Go in unto the wife of thy brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother;'
9. and Onan knoweth that the seed is not [reckoned] his; and it hath come to pass, if he hath gone in unto his brother's wife, that he hath destroyed [it] to the earth, so as not to give seed to his brother;