Genesis 38:8 References

8 Then Judah said to Onan, "aGo in to your brother's wife, and perform your duty as a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother."

a Deuteronomy 25:5, Deuteronomy 25:6, Matthew 22:24


Deuteronomy 25

5 "When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. aHer husband's brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

Deuteronomy 25

6 "It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall assume the name of his dead brother, so that ahis name will not be blotted out from Israel.

Matthew 22

24 asking, "Teacher, Moses said, 'aIF A MAN DIES HAVING NO CHILDREN, HIS BROTHER AS NEXT OF KIN SHALL MARRY HIS WIFE, AND RAISE UP CHILDREN FOR HIS BROTHER.'