Genesis 38:9

God's Word

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.

Cross References

James 4:5

Do you think this passage means nothing? It says, “The Spirit that lives in us wants us to be his own.”

James 3:16

Wherever there is jealousy and rivalry, there is disorder and every kind of evil.

Titus 3:3

Indeed, we, too, were once stupid, disobedient, and misled. We were slaves to many kinds of lusts and pleasures. We were mean and jealous. We were hated, and we hated each other.

James 3:14

But if you are bitterly jealous and filled with self-centered ambition, don’t brag. Don’t say that you are wise when it isn’t true.

Proverbs 27:4

Anger is cruel, and fury is overwhelming, but who can survive jealousy?

Job 5:2

Certainly, anger kills a stubborn fool, and jealousy murders a gullible person.

Ruth 4:10

In addition, I have bought as my wife the Moabite Ruth, Mahlon’s widow, to keep the inheritance in the dead man’s name. In this way the dead man’s name will not be cut off from his relatives or from the public records. Today you are witnesses.”

Deuteronomy 25:6

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

Ruth 1:11

But Naomi said, “Go back, my daughters. Why should you go with me? Do I have any more sons in my womb who could be your husbands?

Genesis 38:10

What Onan did angered the Lord so much that the Lord took away Onan’s life too.

Deuteronomy 25:5

When brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother must marry her and sleep with her. He must do his duty as her brother-in-law.