strange verses

[mannyefx]

So in Gen. 38:8-10 - Onan is killed by God for practicing contraception (in this case, withdrawal) and spilling his semen on the ground.

How did they find out? Were they there and saw him spill his seed or did his brothers wife told them what he did.

 

[bmullins]

We don’t know. You would assume that there weren’t witnesses other than the wife to the event, as it wouldn’t have been a public occasion.

 

[Pfaffenhoffen]

So in Gen. 38:8-10 - Onan is killed by God for practicing contraception (in this case, withdrawal) and spilling his semen on the ground.

How did they find out? Were they there and saw him spill his seed or did his brothers wife told them what he did.

Midrash … !

 

[Theophorus]

So in Gen. 38:8-10 - Onan is killed by God for practicing contraception (in this case, withdrawal) and spilling his semen on the ground.

How did they find out? Were they there and saw him spill his seed or did his brothers wife told them what he did.

Well when Onan died suddenly like that, people were bout to ask her what happened.

 

[Lonely_guy]

There is nothing between heaven and earth that God do not see,hear or know.

 

[Crumpy]

So in Gen. 38:8-10 - Onan is killed by God for practicing contraception (in this case, withdrawal) and spilling his semen on the ground.

How did they find out? Were they there and saw him spill his seed or did his brothers wife told them what he did.

don’t know; haven’t read that section recently. I think the sin had to do with not performing the duty to carry on his brother’s name with an offspring through his widow.