KJV King James Version
And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
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Genesis 38:8
And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
WEB World English Bible
Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother.”
ASV American Standard Version
And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother unto her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Judah saith to Onan, ‘Go in unto the wife of thy brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother;’
Surrounding context — Genesis 38
5 And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.
6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name [was] Tamar.
7 And Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.
8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled [it] on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.
11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren [did]. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַיֹּ֤אמֶרH559 · a.marto sayיְהוּדָה֙H3063 · ye.hu.dahJudahלְאוֹנָ֔ןH209 · o.nanOnanבֹּ֛אH935 · boto come (in): comeאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)אֵ֥שֶׁתH802 · ish.shahwomanאָחִ֖יךָH251 · achbrother: male-siblingוְיַבֵּ֣םH2992 · ya.vambe brother-in-lawאֹתָ֑הּH853 · et[Obj.]וְהָקֵ֥םH6965 · qa.may(Leb)-kamaiזֶ֖רַעH2233 · ze.raseedלְאָחִֽיךָ׃H251 · achbrother: male-sibling
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 25:5-10If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her.Matthew 22:23-27The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,Ruth 1:11And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? [are] there yet [any more] sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?Ruth 4:5-11Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy [it] also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.Leviticus 18:16Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it [is] thy brother’s nakedness.Numbers 36:8-9And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
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