Genesis 38:8 BSB — MannaFest

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12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
יְהוּדָה֙	ye.hu.Dah	Judah	H3063 →
לְאוֹנָ֔ן	le.'o.Nan	to Onan	H209 →
בֹּ֛א	bo'	go	H935 →
אֶל־	'el-	into	H413 →
אֵ֥שֶׁת	'E.shet	[the] wife of	H802 →
אָחִ֖יךָ	'a.Chi.kha	brother your	H251 →
וְיַבֵּ֣ם	ve.ya.Bem	and act as a husband's brother for	H2992 →
אֹתָ֑הּ	'o.Tah	<obj.> her	H853 →
וְהָקֵ֥ם	ve.ha.Kem	and raise up	H6965 →
זֶ֖רַע	Ze.ra'	offspring	H2233 →
לְאָחִֽיךָ׃	le.'a.Chi.kha	for brother your	H251 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ruth 1:11
But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?
leads to
- Deuteronomy 25:5
  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…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 38:11
  Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went…
Through
Leviticus 18:16
You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.
leads to
- Leviticus 20:21
  If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity. He has uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they shall be childless.
- Mark 12:19
  “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.
- Matthew 22:24
  “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.
- Mark 6:17
  For Herod himself had ordered that John be arrested and bound and imprisoned, on account of his brother Philip’s wife Herodias, whom Herod had married.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Deuteronomy 25:5–10When 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.Matthew 22:23–27That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and questioned Him.Ruth 4:5Then 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.”Ruth 4:5–11Then 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.”Ruth 1:11But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?Luke 20:28“Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.Leviticus 18:16You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.Numbers 36:8–9Every 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.Mark 12:19“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.Matthew 22:24“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.

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