Genesis 38:8 Cross References

Genesis 38:8

8: Then Judah said to Er's brother Onan, "You must marry Tamar, as our law requires of the brother of a man who has died. Her first son from you will be your brother's heir."

Matthew 22:23

  1. That same day some Sadducees stepped forward--a group of Jews who say there is no resurrection after death. They posed this question:
  2. "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies without children, his brother should marry the widow and have a child who will be the brother's heir.'
  3. Well, there were seven brothers. The oldest married and then died without children, so the second brother married the widow.
  4. This brother also died without children, and the wife was married to the next brother, and so on until she had been the wife of each of them.
  5. And then she also died.

Ruth 1:11

  1. But Naomi replied, "Why should you go on with me? Can I still give birth to other sons who could grow up to be your husbands?

Leviticus 18:16

  1. Do not have intercourse with your brother's wife; this would violate your brother.

Ruth 4:5

  1. Then Boaz told him, "Of course, your purchase of the land from Naomi also requires that you marry Ruth, the Moabite widow. That way, she can have children who will carry on her husband's name and keep the land in the family."
  2. "Then I can't redeem it," the family redeemer replied, "because this might endanger my own estate. You redeem the land; I cannot do it."
  3. In those days it was the custom in Israel for anyone transferring a right of purchase to remove his sandal and hand it to the other party. This publicly validated the transaction.
  4. So the other family redeemer drew off his sandal as he said to Boaz, "You buy the land."
  5. Then Boaz said to the leaders and to the crowd standing around, "You are witnesses that today I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelech, Kilion, and Mahlon.

Numbers 36:8

  1. The daughters throughout the tribes of Israel who are in line to inherit property must marry within their tribe, so that all the Israelites will keep their ancestral property.
  2. No inheritance may pass from one tribe to another; each tribe of Israel must hold on to its allotted inheritance of land."

Deuteronomy 25:5

  1. "If two brothers are living together on the same property and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Instead, her husband's brother must marry her and fulfill the duties of a brother-in-law.
  2. The first son she bears to him will be counted as the son of the dead brother, so that his name will not be forgotten in Israel.
  3. But if the dead man's brother refuses to marry the widow, she must go to the town gate and say to the leaders there, `My husband's brother refuses to preserve his brother's name in Israel--he refuses to marry me.'
  4. The leaders of the town will then summon him and try to reason with him. If he still insists that he doesn't want to marry her,
  5. the widow must walk over to him in the presence of the leaders, pull his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. She will then say, `This is what happens to a man who refuses to raise up a son for his brother.'
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