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57 Judah’s sons; Tamar schemes offspring GENESIS 37:31–38:16
his other brothers he exclaimed:
“The child is gone! And I—where
CHAP. 37
a Ge 49:3
6 In time Judah took a wife for
Er his firstborn, and her name
am I really to go?” a
b Pr 28:17 was Tamar. a 7 But Er, Judah’s
31 However, they took Joseph’s
c Ge 38:25 firstborn, proved to be bad in
long garment and slaugh-
Nu 35:24 the eyes of Jehovah; b hence Je-
tered a male goat and repeatedly
d Ge 37:3 hovah put him to death. c 8 In
dipped the long garment in
1Ti 5:24
view of that Judah said to Onan:
the blood. b 32 After that they
e Ge 44:28
“Have relations with your brother’s
wife and perform brother-in-
f Ex 22:13
sent the long striped garment
2Ki 2:24
and had it brought to their father
and said: “This is what we
up offspring for your brother.”
law marriage with her and raise
g 2Sa 1:11
Job 1:20
d
found. Examine, c please, whether
9 But Onan knew that the off-
h 1Th 5:14
it is your son’s long garment
spring would not become his; e
i Ps 77:2
or not.” d 33 And he went examining
it and exclaimed: “It is j Ge 39:1 did have relations with his broth-
Mt 2:18 and it occurred that when he
my son’s long garment! A vi-
k Ge 40:3 er’s wife he wasted his semen on
ciouswildbeastmusthavede-
the earth so as not to give off-
voured him! e Joseph is surely
torn to pieces!” f 34 With that
Jacob ripped his mantles apart
and put sackcloth upon his hips
and carried on mourning over
his son for many days. g 35 And
all his sons and all his daughters
kept rising up to comfort him, h
buthekeptrefusingtotakecomfort
and saying: i “For I shall go
down mourning to my son into
Sheol!” And his father continued
weeping for him.
36 However, the Midi·an·ites
sold him into Egypt to Poti·phar
a court official of Pharaoh, j the
chief of the bodyguard. k
38
Now in the meantime it
cameaboutthatwhenJudah
went down from his brothers
he pitched his tent near a man,
an A·dullam·ite, l and his name
was Hirah. 2 And there Judah
got to see a daughter of a certain
Canaan·ite, m and his name was
Shua. So he took her and had relations
with her. 3 And she became
pregnant. Later she bore a
son and he called his name Er. n
4 Again she became pregnant.
In time she bore a son and called
his name Onan. 5 Yet another
time she went on to bear a son
and then called his name Shelah.Nowhehappenedtobein
Achzib at the time she bore
him. o
CHAP. 38
l Jos 12:15
1Sa 22:1
m Ge 24:3
Ge 28:1
n Nu 26:19
o Jos 19:29
Jg 1:31
Second Col.
a Mt 1:3
b De 21:20
Ga 5:19
1Pe 3:12
c 2Sa 6:7
Ac 12:23
d De 25:5
De 25:6
Ru 1:11
Mt 22:24
e Ru 4:6
f De 25:9
g Isa 65:12
h 1Ch 2:3
Ps 55:23
i Ru 1:13
Mt 22:24
j Nu 26:19
k Le 22:13
l Ge 38:2
m Nu 20:29
De 34:8
n Ge 38:1
o Jos 15:10
Jg 14:1
p 1Sa 25:4
q De 25:5
Ru 1:11
Mt 22:24
r Jer 3:2
s Pr 7:10
spring to his brother. f 10 Now
what he did was bad in the
eyes of Jehovah; g hence he put
him also to death. h 11 So Judah
said to Tamar his daughterin-law:
“Dwell as a widow in the
houseofyourfatheruntilShelah
my son grows up.” i For he
said to himself: “He too may die
like his brothers.” j Accordingly
Tamar went and continued to
dwell at her own father’s house. k
12 Thus the days became
many and the daughter of Shua,
Judah’s wife, l died; and Judah
kept the period of mourning. m
After that he went up to the
shearers of his sheep, he and Hirah
his companion the A·dullam·ite,
n to Timnah. o 13 Then
it was told to Tamar: “Here
your father-in-law is going up
to Timnah to shear his sheep.” p
14 With that she removed the
garments of her widowhood from
her and covered herself with a
shawl and veiled herself and sat
down at the entrance of E·naim,
which is along the road to
Timnah. For she saw that Shelah
had grown up and yet she had
not been given as a wife to him. q
15 When Judah caught sight
of her, he at once took her for
aharlot, r because she had covered
her face. s 16 So he turned
aside to her by the road and
said: “Allow me, please, to have