Genesis 38:9

New English Translation

But Onan knew that the child would not be considered his. So whenever he had sexual relations with his brother’s wife, he withdrew prematurely so as not to give his brother a descendant.

Cross References

Genesis 38:10

What he did was evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord killed him too.

Job 5:2

For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

Deuteronomy 25:5

If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.

Deuteronomy 25:6

Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

James 3:16

For where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is disorder and every evil practice.

James 4:5

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, “The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?

Ruth 1:11

But Naomi replied, “Go back home, my daughters! There is no reason for you to return to Judah with me! I am no longer capable of giving birth to sons who might become your husbands!

Ruth 4:10

I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, as my wife to raise up a descendant who will inherit his property so the name of the deceased might not disappear from among his relatives and from his village. You are witnesses today.”