Genesis 38:9 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ He knowing that the children should not be his, when he went in to his brother's wife, spilled his seed upon the ground, lest children should be born in his brother's name.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ But Onan knew that the family would not be his, so when he cohabited with his brother's widow, he prevented conception, lest he should raise up a child for his brother.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ And Onan knew that the seed would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.

Common English Bible

⁹ Onan knew the children wouldn’t be his so when he slept with his brother’s wife, he wasted his semen on the ground, so he wouldn’t give his brother children.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ He, knowing that the sons to be born would not be his, when he entered to the wife of his brother, he spilled his seed on the ground, lest children should be born in his brother's name.

Genesis 38:9 Cross References

Genesis 38:10

And therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable thing.

Job 5:2

Anger indeed killeth the foolish: and envy slayeth the little one.

Proverbs 27:4

Anger hath no mercy, nor fury when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?

Deuteronomy 25:5

When brethren dwell together, and one of them dieth without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry to another: but his brother shall take her, and raise up seed for his brother.

Deuteronomy 25:6

And the first son he shall have of her he shall call by his name: that his name be not abolished out of Israel.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contentions in your hearts; glory not, and be not liars against the truth.

James 3:16

For where envying and contention is, there is inconstancy, and every evil work.

James 4:5

Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?

Ruth 1:11

But she answered them: Return, my daughters. Why come ye with me? Have I any more sons in my womb, that you may hope for husbands of me?

Ruth 4:10

And have taken to wife Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahalon, to raise up the name of the deceased in his inheritance lest his name be cut off, from among his family and his brethren and his people. You, I say, are witnesses of this thing.