Genesis 38:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But since Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, he spilled his semen on the ground whenever he went in to his brother’s wife, so that he would not give offspring to his brother.

Cross References

Genesis 38:10

What he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also.

Job 5:2

Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Deuteronomy 25:5

“When brothers reside together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, taking her in marriage and performing the duty of a husband’s brother to her,

Deuteronomy 25:6

and the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed to the name of the deceased brother, so that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant and lie about the truth.

James 3:16

For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind.

James 4:5

Or do you suppose that the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the spirit that God caused to dwell in us desire envy?

Ruth 1:11

But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters. Why will you go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb that they may become your husbands?

Ruth 4:10

I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, to maintain the dead man’s name on his inheritance, in order that the name of the dead may not be cut off from his kindred and from the gate of his native place; today you are witnesses.”