Genesis 38:8

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Then Judah said to Onan, 'Lie with your brother's widow, perform your duty as her brother-in-law, and produce offspring for your brother.'

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  • Deut 25:5-9 : 5 If brothers live together and one of them dies without a son, the dead man's wife must not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her. 6 The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name is not blotted out of Israel. 7 But if the man does not wish to marry his brother's widow, she shall go to the elders at the city gate and say, 'My brother-in-law is refusing to perform his duty to preserve his brother's name in Israel. He is unwilling to marry me.' 8 Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. If he persists and says, 'I do not want to marry her,' 9 then his brother's widow shall approach him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and declare, 'This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother's family line.' 10 His family shall be known in Israel as 'The Family of the Unsandaled.'
  • Ruth 1:11 : 11 But Naomi replied, "Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Do I still have sons in my womb who could become your husbands?
  • Ruth 4:5-9 : 5 Then Boaz said, 'On the day you buy the field from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of the deceased, in order to maintain the name of the dead on his inheritance.' 6 The kinsman-redeemer said, 'I cannot redeem it because it might jeopardize my own inheritance. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it.' 7 Now in earlier times in Israel, to finalize a transaction concerning redemption or transfer of property, one party would take off their sandal and give it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel. 8 So the kinsman-redeemer said to Boaz, 'Buy it yourself,' and he removed his sandal. 9 Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, 'Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelech, Kilion, and Mahlon.' 10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, as my wife in order to maintain the name of the deceased on his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from the gate of his hometown. You are witnesses today. 11 All the people who were at the gate and the elders said, 'We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you prosper in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.'
  • Matt 22:23-27 : 23 That same day, the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and questioned him, 24 saying, 'Teacher, Moses said: If a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.' 25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. 26 The same thing happened to the second and third, and so on through all seven. 27 Last of all, the woman died too.
  • Lev 18:16 : 16 Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would dishonor your brother.
  • Num 36:8-9 : 8 'Every daughter who inherits land from the tribes of Israel must marry within a clan of her father’s tribe, so that every Israelite may retain the inheritance of their ancestors.' 9 'No inheritance may be transferred from one tribe to another, for each Israelite tribe is to retain its inheritance.'

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  • Gen 38:9-11
    3 verses
    87%

    9However, Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, so whenever he went in to his brother's wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to avoid producing offspring for his brother.

    10What he did was wicked in the LORD's sight, so the LORD put him to death also.

    11Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, 'Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up,' for he thought, 'He might die too, just like his brothers.' So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

  • Deut 25:5-7
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    76%

    5If brothers live together and one of them dies without a son, the dead man's wife must not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.

    6The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name is not blotted out of Israel.

    7But if the man does not wish to marry his brother's widow, she shall go to the elders at the city gate and say, 'My brother-in-law is refusing to perform his duty to preserve his brother's name in Israel. He is unwilling to marry me.'

  • Gen 38:1-7
    7 verses
    75%

    1At that time, Judah left his brothers and turned aside to a certain Adullamite man named Hirah.

    2There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and had relations with her.

    3She conceived and gave birth to a son, and he named him Er.

    4She conceived again and gave birth to another son, and she named him Onan.

    5She gave birth to yet another son and named him Shelah. Judah was in Chezib when she gave birth to him.

    6Judah arranged a wife for Er, his firstborn son. Her name was Tamar.

    7But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the LORD’s sight, so the LORD put him to death.

  • Gen 38:15-16
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    73%

    15When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, because she had covered her face.

    16He turned aside to her by the roadside and said, 'Come now, let me sleep with you.' He did not know she was his daughter-in-law. She asked, 'What will you give me to sleep with you?'

  • Gen 24:38
    73%

    38Instead, you must go to my father's household and to my family to take a wife for my son.'

  • Num 26:19
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    19The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 38:23-24
    2 verses
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    23Judah said, 'Let her keep what she has, or we will become a laughingstock. After all, I sent her this young goat, but you didn’t find her.'

    24About three months later, Judah was told, 'Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant as a result.' Judah said, 'Bring her out and let her be burned!'

  • 1 Chr 2:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3The sons of Judah were Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bath-shua, the Canaanite. However, Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the sight of the LORD, and He put him to death.

    4Tamar, Judah’s daughter-in-law, gave birth to Perez and Zerah. The total number of Judah’s sons was five.

  • Mark 12:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19'Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves behind a wife but no children, the man should marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.'

    20'Now there were seven brothers. The first married a woman and died, leaving no children.'

  • Luke 20:28
    71%

    28'Teacher,' they said, 'Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but has no children, the man should marry the widow to raise up offspring for his brother.'

  • Gen 38:19
    71%

    19Then she got up and left, took off her veil, and put back on her widow's garments.

  • Lev 20:21
    71%

    21If a man marries his brother's wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

  • Ruth 4:12
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    12May your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, through the offspring that the Lord will give you by this young woman.

  • Lev 18:16
    71%

    16Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would dishonor your brother.

  • Gen 38:26-27
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    71%

    26Judah recognized them and said, 'She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.' And he did not have relations with her again.

    27When the time came for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

  • Matt 22:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24saying, 'Teacher, Moses said: If a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.'

    25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother.

  • Gen 19:34
    69%

    34The next day, the older daughter said to the younger, "Last night I lay with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight, and you go in and lie with him so we can preserve our family line through him."

  • Matt 1:2
    69%

    2Abraham was the father of Isaac; Isaac was the father of Jacob; Jacob was the father of Judah and his brothers.

  • Gen 38:13
    68%

    13When Tamar was told, 'Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,'

  • Gen 28:2
    68%

    2Arise, go to Paddan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

  • Lev 18:14
    68%

    14Do not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.

  • Deut 25:9
    68%

    9then his brother's widow shall approach him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and declare, 'This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother's family line.'