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.

And Judah {H3063} said {H559} unto Onan {H209}, Go in {H935} unto thy brother's {H251} wife {H802}, and marry {H2992} her, and raise up {H6965} seed {H2233} to thy brother {H251}.

Y'hudah said to Onan, "Go and sleep with your brother's wife - perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and preserve your brother's line of descent."

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.”

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.

Note: Commentary was generated by an advanced AI, utilizing a prompt that emphasized Biblical fidelity over bias. We've found these insights to be consistently reliable, yet we always encourage prayerful discernment through the Holy Spirit. The Scripture text and cross-references are from verified, non-AI sources.
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    ¶ The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,
  • Matthew 22:27

    And last of all the woman died also.
  • Deuteronomy 25:5

    ¶ If 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.
  • Deuteronomy 25:10

    And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
  • Ruth 4:5

    Then 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.
  • Ruth 4:11

    And all the people that [were] in the gate, and the elders, said, [We are] witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
  • Leviticus 18:16

    Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it [is] thy brother's nakedness.

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