Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 38:6

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CCEL Footnote 105 (In-Text, Margin)

10. After these things, my son Er took to wife Tamar, from Mesopotamia, a daughter of Aram.[Genesis 38:6] Now Er was wicked, and he doubted concerning Tamar, because she was not of the land of Canaan. And on the third day an angel of the Lord smote him in the night, and he had not known her, according to the evil craftiness of his mother, for he did not wish to have children from her. In the days of the wedding-feast I espoused Onan to her; and he also in wickedness knew her not, though he lived with her a year. And when I threatened him, he lay with ...