What does "spill your seed" in the Bible mean?
Well, there is a story in the Old Testament about a man named Onan who was to produce offspring for his late brother, Er. Onan married Er's widow Tamar to fulfill this duty, but Onan realized that the child was not gonna be HIS heir and was angry about that factor, so you know what he did? He used Tamar as just a sex object and it prevented her from having a child, the act broke God's heart and God stoned Onan. To spill your seed would simply mean to ditch God's command to provide an heir. The story takes place in the first half of Genesis, Chapter 38, verses 1 through 10. 1 About that time, Judah left his brothers and settled near a man named Hirah, an Adullamite. 2 There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her as a wife and slept with her. 3 So she conceived and gave birth to a son, and Judah named him Er. 4 Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Onan. 5 The...
