Genesis 38:8 - The Scriptures 2009

⁸ And Yehuḏah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife and marry her, and raise up an heir to your brother.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Then Judah told Onan, Marry your brother's widow; live with her and raise offspring for your brother.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother unto her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

Common English Bible

⁸ Judah said to Onan, “Go to your brother’s wife, do your duty as her brother-in-law, and provide children for your brother.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Therefore, Judah said to his son Onan: "Enter to the wife of your brother, and associate with her, so that you may raise offspring to your brother."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Juda, therefore add to Onan his son: Go in to thy brother's wife and marry her, that thou mayst raise seed to thy brother.

Genesis 38:8 Cross References

Genesis 19:31

And the first-born said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come in to us, as is the way of all the earth.

Leviticus 18:16

‘The nakedness of your brother’s wife you do not uncover, it is your brother’s nakedness.

Ruth 1:11

But Na‛omi said, “Go back, my daughters, why go with me? Have I still sons in my womb, that they should become your husbands?