You are assuming a lot. I am not basing my conclusion on the Bible and I am not a Christian. So whatever they argue, has nothing to do with my argument. It is a rabbinical injunction and it is found in the Talmud. By the way, marrying your dead brother's wife was called Levirate marriage. These marriages were not sinful, they were commanded. Onan refused to have a child for his brother. That was a sin.
Well that's very interesting - however - I looked it up in the Hebrew.
Torah is supposedly from YHVH. Talmud & Mishna are human commentary.
Look at the way it is written -
Gen 38:8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her,
and raise up seed to thy brother.
Gen 38:9 And
Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass,
when he went in unto his brother's wife, that
he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
It very specifically means he went in to her for sex.
If we accept the LATER HUMAN Talmud commentary, - we would have to assume Onan was an idiot exhibitionist.
We would have to believe
he WENT IN UNTO her and
jer*ed-off in front of her, - knowing he would get in trouble for such an act.
Is that logical??? NO!
But it is a logical conclusion when reading the story - that HE WENT IN ONTO HER - had sex ,- but withdrew before ejaculation, so as to provide no heir for his brother. An heir would have taken inheritance money out of his pocket.
Read it in the Hebrew.
And - yâbam - does not mean marry. It means to perform the duty of a dead husband’s brother
Also look at the end of the story.
She has sex with Judah to get this duty performed, - he acknowledges he had sex with her, - but knows her no more, - and she is NOT one of his wives.
Gen 38:26 And Judah acknowledged
them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
I get tired of later groups trying to make what the Bible actually says, - more socially acceptable, - by adding meanings the word actually does not have.
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