spilling your seed

⁸Therefore, Judah said to his son Onan: “Enter to the wife of your brother, and associate with her, so that you may raise offspring to your brother.” ⁹He, knowing that the sons to be born would not be his, when he entered to the wife of his brother, he spilled his seed on the ground, lest children should be born in his brother’s name. ¹⁰And for this reason, the Lord struck him down, because he did a detestable thing.

⁹He, knowing that the sons to be born would not be his, when he entered to the wife of his brother, he spilled his seed on the ground, lest children should be born in his brother’s name.

¹About the same time, Judah, descending from his brothers, turned toward an Adullamite man, named Hirah. ²And he saw there the daughter of a man called Shua, of Canaan. And taking her as a wife, he entered to her. ³And she conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Er. ⁴And conceiving offspring again, having given birth to a son, she called him Onan. ⁵Likewise, she bore a third, whom she called Shelah, after whose birth, she ceased to bear any more. ⁶Then Judah gave a wife to his first born Er, whose name was Tamar.

⁹He, knowing that the sons to be born would not be his, when he entered to the wife of his brother, he spilled his seed on the ground, lest children should be born in his brother’s name. ¹⁰And for this reason, the Lord struck him down, because he did a detestable thing.

¹⁰And for this reason, the Lord struck him down, because he did a detestable thing.

⁵When brothers are living together, and one of them dies without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry another. Instead, his brother shall take her, and he shall raise up offspring for his brother. ⁶And the first son from her, he shall call by his brother’s name, so that his name will not be abolished from Israel. ⁷But if he is not willing to take his brother’s wife, who by law must go to him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and she shall call upon those greater by birth, and she shall say: ‘The brother of my husband is not willing to raise up his brother’s name in Israel; nor will he join with me.’ ⁸And immediately, they shall summon him to be sent, and they shall question him. If he responds, ‘I am not willing to accept her as a wife,’ ⁹then the woman shall approach him in the sight of the elders, and she shall remove his shoe from his foot, and she shall spit in his face, and she shall say: ‘So shall it be done to the man who was not willing to build up his brother’s house.’ ¹⁰And his name shall be called in Israel: The House of the Unshod.

⁴The man of the offspring of Aaron, who is a leper or who is suffering a flow of seed, shall not eat of those things which have been sanctified to me, until he is healed. Whoever will have touched what is unclean because of the dead, and he whose seed goes out from him, as if from sexual intercourse,

¹The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, in order to make known to his servants the things that must soon occur, and which he signified by sending his Angel to his servant John;

⁹All those who have been born of God do not commit sin. For the offspring of God abides in them, and he is not able to sin, because he was born of God.

⁶And the first son from her, he shall call by his brother’s name, so that his name will not be abolished from Israel.

¹For I want you to know the kind of solicitude that I have for you, and for those who are at Laodicea, as well as for those who have not seen my face in the flesh. ²May their hearts be consoled and instructed in charity, with all the riches of a plenitude of understanding, with knowledge of the mystery of God the Father and of Christ Jesus. ³For in him are hidden all treasures of wisdom and knowledge. ⁴Now I say this, so that no one may deceive you with grandiose words. ⁵For though I may be absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit. And I rejoice as I gaze upon your order and its foundation, which is in Christ, your faith. ⁶Therefore, just as you have received the Lord Jesus Christ, walk in him.

¹⁶But if he has vowed a field of his possession, and has consecrated it to the Lord, the price shall be estimated according to the measure of the seed. If the land would be sown with thirty measures of barley, then let it be sold for fifty shekels of silver.

⁸Therefore, Judah said to his son Onan: “Enter to the wife of your brother, and associate with her, so that you may raise offspring to your brother.”

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance,

⁵When brothers are living together, and one of them dies without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry another. Instead, his brother shall take her, and he shall raise up offspring for his brother.

⁶Then Judah gave a wife to his first born Er, whose name was Tamar.

¹And it happened that, when Jesus had completed these words, he moved away from Galilee, and he arrived within the borders of Judea, across the Jordan. ²And great crowds followed him, and he healed them there. ³And the Pharisees approached him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to separate from his wife, no matter what the cause?” ⁴And he said to them in response, “Have you not read that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female?” And he said: ⁵“For this reason, a man shall separate from father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife, and these two shall become one flesh. ⁶And so, now they are not two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no man separate.”

¹⁰And he who ministers seed to the sower will offer you bread to eat, and will multiply your seed, and will increase the growth of the fruits of your justice.

¹³If any man has slept with a male in place of sexual intercourse with a female, both have committed a nefarious act, they shall die a death. So let their blood be upon them.

¹¹Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: ²Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them: The man who undergoes a flow of seed shall be unclean. ³And then he shall be judged subject to this fault, if a filthy fluid, at each moment, adheres to his flesh and gathers there. ⁴Every bed on which he sleeps shall be unclean, and every place where he sits. ⁵If any man has touched his couch, he shall wash his clothes, and having washed with water, he shall be unclean until evening. ⁶If he will have sat where that man has sat, he shall also wash his clothes, and having washed with water, he shall be unclean until evening.

²⁰I live; yet now, it is not I, but truly Christ, who lives in me. And though I live now in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and who delivered himself for me.