Genesis 38:9

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Cross References

James 4:5

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

James 3:16

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

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.

Proverbs 27:4

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

Job 5:2

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

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.

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.

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?

Genesis 38:10

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

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.