Cross references
Genesis 38:8
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.”
Genesis 38:8 has 6 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Deuteronomy 25:5–10 (7 votes) and Matthew 22:23–27 (6 votes). 12 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Genesis 19 to Luke 20.
Which verses does Genesis 38:8 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Deuteronomy 25:5–107 votes
When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her. The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel. …
- Matthew 22:23–276 votes
That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and questioned Him. “Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him. …
- Ruth 1:114 votes
But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?
- Ruth 4:5–114 votes
Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi and also from Ruth the Moabitess, you must also acquire the widow of the deceased in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.” The kinsman-redeemer replied, “I cannot redeem it myself, or I would jeopardize my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption, because I cannot redeem it.” …
- Leviticus 18:163 votes
You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.
- Numbers 36:8–92 votes
Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any Israelite tribe must marry within a clan of the tribe of her father, so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of his fathers. No inheritance may be transferred from one tribe to another, for each tribe of Israel must retain its inheritance.”
Which verses point to Genesis 38:8?
The 10 strongest of 12.