Deuteronomy 25:6

God's Word

Then the first son she has will carry the dead brother’s name so that his name won’t die out in Israel.

Cross References

Genesis 38:8

Then Judah said to Onan, “Go sleep with your brother’s widow. Do your duty for her as a brother-in-law, and produce a descendant for your brother.”

Genesis 38:9

But Onan knew that the descendant wouldn’t belong to him, so whenever he slept with his brother’s widow, he wasted his semen on the ground to avoid giving his brother a descendant.

Psalm 109:13

Let his descendants be cut off and their family name be wiped out by the next generation.

Psalm 9:5

You condemned nations. You destroyed wicked people. You wiped out their names forever and ever.

Deuteronomy 21:19

His father and mother must take him to the leaders of the city at the city gate.

Deuteronomy 29:20

The Lord will never be willing to forgive that person, because the Lord’s burning anger will smolder against him. All the curses described in this book will happen to him. The Lord will erase ⌞every memory of⌟ that person’s name from the earth.

Deuteronomy 9:14

Leave me alone! I’ll destroy them and wipe their name off the earth. Then I’ll make you into a nation larger and stronger than they are.”