⁸ Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.”^(A)

⁵ If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.^(A)

⁶ The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.^(A)

¹³ Stay here for the night, and in the morning if he wants to do his duty as your guardian-redeemer,^(A) good; let him redeem you. But if he is not willing, as surely as the Lord lives^(B) I will do it.^(C) Lie here until morning.”

²⁴ “Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.^(A)