Genesis 38:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he released his semen on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.

Cross References

James 4:5

Or do you think it’s without reason that the Scripture says: The spirit he made to dwell in us envies intensely?  ,

James 3:16

For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice.

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions  and pleasures,  living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and deny the truth.

Proverbs 27:4

Fury is cruel, and anger a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?

Job 5:2

For anger kills a fool, and jealousy slays the gullible.

Ruth 4:10

I have also acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to perpetuate the deceased man’s name on his property, so that his name will not disappear among his relatives or from the gate of his home town. You are witnesses today.’

Deuteronomy 25:6

The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

Ruth 1:11

But Naomi replied, ‘Return home, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Am I able to have any more sons who could become your husbands?

Genesis 38:10

What he did was evil in the Lord’s sight, so he put him to death also.

Deuteronomy 25:5

‘When brothers live on the same property  and one of them dies without a son, the wife of the dead man may not marry a stranger outside the family. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife, have sexual relations with her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law for her.