Genesis 38:7
And Her, the firstborn of Juda, was wicked in the sight of the Lord: and was slain by him.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Fuit quoque Her primogenitus Judæ nequam in conspectu Domini : et ab eo occisus est.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐγένετο δὲ Ἢρ πρωτότοκος Ἰούδα πονηρὸς ἐναντίον Κυρίου, καὶ ἀπέκτεινεν αὐτὸν ὁ θεός.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְהִ֗י עֵ֚ר בְּכ֣וֹר יְהוּדָ֔ה רַ֖ע בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַיְמִתֵ֖הוּ יְהוָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Wicked; without shame or remorse, sinning against nature, in order, if we may believe the Jews, that the beauty of his wife might not be impaired by having children. Onan was actuated by envy. (Menochius)
Where a note speaks of the Jewish people, the Church teaches that the Passion cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.