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OET (OET-LV) And_he/it_knew ʼŌnān if/because_that not[fn] to_him/it it_will_belong the_offspring and_it_was if he_went into the_wife his/its_woman and_spilled_semen towards_land to_not to_give offspring to_brother_his.
38:9 Note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
OET (OET-RV) However, Onan knew that any children wouldn’t be his, so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground so that he wouldn’t give children to his late brother.
וַיֵּ֣דַע אוֹנָ֔ן כִּ֛י לֹּ֥א ל֖וֹ יִהְיֶ֣ה הַזָּ֑רַע
and=he/it_knew ʼŌnān that/for/because/then/when not to=him/it will_belong the,offspring
Alternate translation: “But Onan knew that the children they would have together would not belong to him.”
וְהָיָ֞ה אִם
and=it_was if
Alternate translation: “So every time”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / euphemism
בָּ֨א אֶל
he/it_came to/towards
Alternate translation: “he lay with” or “he had physical relations with”
וְשִׁחֵ֣ת אַ֔רְצָה
and,spilled_~_semen towards=land
Translate this clause in a way that is polite and will not shame or embarrass people when this verse is read aloud in public. Make sure it is clear that Onan did something to keep Tamar from getting pregnant. Alternate translation: “he let his semen to go on the ground”
לְבִלְתִּ֥י נְתָן זֶ֖רַע לְאָחִֽיו
to=not give seed/offspring to,brother,his
Alternate translation: “so that he would not have offspring for his brother.” or “to keep her from getting pregnant and having any offspring for his brother.”
38:1-30 The story of Judah and Tamar is a carefully placed interlude; it reports what was happening in the family of Judah, who would later rise to prominence, and it shows the beginnings of assimilation with the people of the land to help explain why God sent the family to Egypt (chs 39–47). The Egyptians were strict separatists (43:32); the Israelites would retain their unique identity better in Egypt than in Canaan.
OET (OET-LV) And_he/it_knew ʼŌnān if/because_that not[fn] to_him/it it_will_belong the_offspring and_it_was if he_went into the_wife his/its_woman and_spilled_semen towards_land to_not to_give offspring to_brother_his.
38:9 Note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
OET (OET-RV) However, Onan knew that any children wouldn’t be his, so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground so that he wouldn’t give children to his late brother.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.