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Onancock (Original Post) Orrex Dec 2012 OP
Picture struggle4progress Dec 2012 #1
Link? Baitball Blogger Dec 2012 #2
It's missing: it's the missing link struggle4progress Dec 2012 #3
Some kind of rooster Dash87 Dec 2012 #4
The backup generator at the company where I worked in Pennsylvania was made by the.. MiddleFingerMom Dec 2012 #5
Shouldn't that be two words? HarveyDarkey Dec 2012 #6
Sounds like a medical condition to me. nolabear Dec 2012 #7

MiddleFingerMom

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5. The backup generator at the company where I worked in Pennsylvania was made by the..
Mon Dec 3, 2012, 01:48 AM
Dec 2012

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... Onan Corporation which, seeing how its product would allow customers to be, um...
self-sufficient... struck us all as fucking hilarious once we noticed it..
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HarveyDarkey

(9,077 posts)
6. Shouldn't that be two words?
Mon Dec 3, 2012, 01:55 AM
Dec 2012

After Onan's brother Er died, his father Judah told him to fulfill his duty as a brother-in-law to Tamar, by giving her offspring. Centuries later, in the days of Moses, this practice was formulated into a law of a levirate marriage, where the brother of the deceased would provide offspring to the childless widow[2] to preserve the family line.[1]

However, when Onan had sex with Tamar, he disregarded this principle when he withdrew before climax[3] and "spilled his seed [or semen] on the ground", since any child born would not legally be considered his heir.[4] He disregarded the principle of a levirate union, so he died prematurely, exactly as God had warned would happen. (Genesis 38:3-10)

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