Genesis 38:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother."

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 25:5-9 : 5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. 6 It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel. 7 If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me. 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, I don't want to take her; 9 then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house. 10 His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe untied.
  • Ruth 1:11 : 11 Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will you go with me? have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
  • Ruth 4:5-9 : 5 Then said Boaz, What day you buy the field of the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance. 6 The near kinsman said, I can't redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance: take my right of redemption on you; for I can't redeem it. 7 Now this was [the custom] in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man drew off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the [manner of] attestation in Israel. 8 So the near kinsman said to Boaz, Buy it for yourself. He drew off his shoe. 9 Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi. 10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place: you are witnesses this day. 11 All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel: and do you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
  • Matt 22:23-27 : 23 On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him, 24 saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.' 25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother. 26 In like manner the second also, and the third, to the seventh. 27 After them all, the woman died.
  • Lev 18:16 : 16 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.
  • Num 36:8-9 : 8 Every daughter, who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers. 9 So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave everyone to his own inheritance.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 38:9-11
    3 verses
    87%

    9Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.

    10The thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he killed him also.

    11Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

  • Deut 25:5-7
    3 verses
    76%

    5If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

    6It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

    7If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.

  • Gen 38:1-7
    7 verses
    75%

    1It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

    2Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

    3She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.

    4She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.

    5She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.

    6Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

    7Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him.

  • Gen 38:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

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

    16He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you:" for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"

  • Gen 24:38
    73%

    38but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'

  • Num 26:19
    73%

    19The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 38:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    23Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this kid, and you haven't found her."

    24It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."

  • 1 Chr 2:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua's daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh; and he killed him.

    4Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

  • Mark 12:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19"Teacher, Moses wrote to us, 'If a man's brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.'

    20There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.

  • Luke 20:28
    71%

    28They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.

  • Gen 38:19
    71%

    19She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

  • Lev 20:21
    71%

    21"'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

  • Ruth 4:12
    71%

    12and let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which Yahweh shall give you of this young woman.

  • Lev 18:16
    71%

    16"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.

  • Gen 38:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son." He knew her again no more.

    27It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.

  • Matt 22:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.'

    25Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother.

  • Gen 19:34
    69%

    34It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."

  • Matt 1:2
    69%

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

  • Gen 38:13
    68%

    13It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."

  • Gen 28:2
    68%

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

  • Lev 18:14
    68%

    14"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, you shall not approach his wife: she is your aunt.

  • Deut 25:9
    68%

    9then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.