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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 38:4

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And she conceived again, and bare a son, etc.] As soon as she well could: and she called his name Onan; the first son Judah gave the name to, but his wife named this, so called from grief or sorrow; the reason of it, according to the above Targum, was, “because his father would mourn for him;” he was a Benoni, (see <013518>Genesis 35:18), whose sin and immature death caused sorrow.
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