Genesis 38:9

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

James 4:5

Do you think that the scripture said in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?

James 3:16

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

Job 5:2

For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one.

Ruth 4:10

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 be not cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place: you are witnesses this day.

Deuteronomy 25:6

And it shall be, that the firstborn which she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.

Ruth 1:11

And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will you go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

Genesis 38:10

And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: why he slew him also.

Deuteronomy 25:5

If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother to her.