Genesis 38:9

Tree of Life Version

But Onan knew that the seed would not be his. So every time he went to his brother’s wife he would destroy it on the ground so as not to provide a seed for his brother.

Cross References

Genesis 38:10

What he did was evil in Adonai’s eyes, so He put him to death also.

Job 5:2

For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

Proverbs 27:4

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

Deuteronomy 25:5

“If brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the dead man’s wife is not to be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother is to go to her and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.

Deuteronomy 25:6

Now the firstborn that she bears is to carry on the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out of Israel.

Titus 3:3

For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.

James 3:16

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil practice.

James 4:5

Or do you think that in vain the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit which He made to dwell in us”?

Ruth 1:11

Now Naomi said, “Go back, my daughters! Why should you go with me? Do I have more sons in my womb who could become your husbands?

Ruth 4:10

Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon to be my wife in order to raise up the name of the deceased over his inheritance, so that the name of the deceased will not be cut off from his brothers or from the gate of his town. You are witnesses today.”