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Genesis Chapter 38

Sons of Judah

38:1 And it so happened at that time, that Judahיְהוּדָה
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. For more info click here
went down from his brothers, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name [was] Hirah.
38:2 And Judahיְהוּדָה
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. For more info click here
saw there a daughter of a Canaanite, whose name [was] Shuah ; and he took her, and went in to her.
38:3 And she conceived, and bore a son ; and he called his name Er.
38:4 And she conceived again, and bore a son ; and she called his name Onan.
38:5 And she continued still, and bore a son ; and called his name Shelah and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.
38:6 And Judahיְהוּדָה
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. For more info click here
took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name [was] Tamar.
38:7 And Er, Judahיְהוּדָה
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. For more info click here
‘s firstborn, was evil in the sight of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
; and YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
killed him.
38:8 And Judahיְהוּדָה
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. For more info click here
said to Onan, Go in to your brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to your brother.
38:9 And Onan knew that the seed would not be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother’s wife, that he wasted [his semen] the ground, not giving seed to his brother.
38:10 And the thing which he did displeased YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
so he killed him also.
38:11 Then said Judahיְהוּדָה
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. For more info click here
to Tamar his daughter in-law, Remain a widow at your father’s house, till Shelah my son is grown for he said, Unless perhaps he die also, as his brothers [did]. And Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
38:12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judahיְהוּדָה
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. For more info click here
‘s wife died ; and Judahיְהוּדָה
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. For more info click here
was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

Tamar deceives Judah


38:13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Look your father in-law is going up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
38:14 And she took her widow’s garments off , and disguised herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which [is] by the way to Timnath ; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she had not been given to him for a wife.
38:15 When Judahיְהוּדָה
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. For more info click here
saw her, he thought she was a harlot ; because she had veiled her face.
38:16 And he turned to her by the roadway, and said, Come now, let me come in to you; (for he knew not that she [was] his daughter in law.) And she said, What will you give me, that you may come in to me?
38:17 And he said, I will send [you] a kid from the flock. And she said, Will you give [me] a pledge, till you send [it]?
38:18 And he said, What pledge shall I give you? And she said, Your signet, and your bracelets, and your staff that [is] in your hand. And he gave [it] her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.
38:19 And she arose, and went away, and laid by her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
38:20 And Judahיְהוּדָה
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. For more info click here
sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive [his] pledge from the woman’s hand but he found her not.
38:21 Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where [is] the harlot, that [was] at Enaim by the roadway? And they said, There was no harlot in this [place].
38:22 And he returned to Judahיְהוּדָה
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. For more info click here
, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, [that] there was no harlot in this [place].
38:23 And Judahיְהוּדָה
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. For more info click here
said, Let her take [them] for herself, that we not become a laughing-stock. See, I sent this kid, and you have not found her.
38:24 And after three months it happened, it was told to Judahיְהוּדָה
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. For more info click here
, saying, Tamar your daughter in law has committed adultery and also, look, she [is] with child by whoredom. And Judahיְהוּדָה
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. For more info click here
said, Bring her out, and let her be burned.
38:25 When she [was] brought out, she sent to her father in law, saying, I am pregnant by a man to whom these belong. Note now whose [are] these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff?
38:26 And Judahיְהוּדָה
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. For more info click here
acknowledged [them], and said, She has been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he never knew her again.

Tamar brings forth twins


38:27 And it happened in the time of her bearing, that, see, twins [were] in her womb.
38:28 And it so happened, when she was bearing, that [the one] put out [his] hand and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.
38:29 And it so happened, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out and she said, How have you broken a break for yourself? And one called his name Pharezפֶּרֶץ‎ / פָּרֶץ‎
Perez, also written as Pharez/Perets Modern Pereṣ / Pareṣ Tiberian Péreṣ / Pāreṣ) Hebrew means “breach or burst forth”.
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38:30 And then his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand and one called his name Zarah.

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