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Themes in Genesis 38
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Themes in Genesis 38

Genesis 38:1

And it happened [that] at that time Judah went down from his brothers and pitched his tent near a certain Adullamite, whose name [was] Hirah.

Genesis 38:2

And Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite there whose name [was] Shua. And he took her and went in to her.

Genesis 38:3

And she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.

Genesis 38:4

And she conceived again and bore a son, and he called his name Onan.

Genesis 38:5

And once again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. And he was in Chezib when she bore him.

Genesis 38:6

And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name [was] Tamar.

Genesis 38:7

And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and Yahweh killed him.

Genesis 38:8

Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to the wife of your brother and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother."

Genesis 38:9

But Onan knew that the offspring would not be for him, so whenever he went in to the wife of his brother he would waste [it] on the ground so as not to give offspring to his brother.

Genesis 38:10

And what he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, so he killed him also.

Genesis 38:11

Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Stay a widow in your father's house until Shelah my son grows up," for {he feared he would also die} like his brother. So Tamar went and stayed in the house of her father.

Genesis 38:12

{And in the course of time} the daughter of Shua, the wife of Judah, died. When Judah was consoled he went up to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite, to Timnah.

Genesis 38:13

And it was told to Tamar, saying, "Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."

Genesis 38:14

So she removed the clothes of her widowhood and covered [herself] with the veil and disguised herself. And she sat at the entrance to Eynayim, which [is] on the way to Timnah, for she saw that Shelah was grown but she had not been given to him as a wife.

Genesis 38:15

And Judah saw her and reckoned her to [be] a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

Genesis 38:16

And he turned aside to her at the roadside and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he did not know that she [was] his daughter-in-law. And she said, "What will you give to me that you may come in to me?"

Genesis 38:17

And he said, "I will send a kid from the goats of the flock." And she said, "[Only] if you give a pledge until you send [it]."

Genesis 38:18

And he said, "What [is] the pledge that I must give to you?" And she said, "your seal, your cord, and your staff that [is] in your hand." And he gave [them] to her and went in to her. And she conceived by him.

Genesis 38:19

And she arose and left, and she removed her veil from herself and put on the garments of her widowhood.

Genesis 38:20

And Judah sent the kid from the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite to take [back] the pledge from the hand of the woman, but he could not find her.

Genesis 38:21

So he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where [is] that cult prostitute [that was] at Eynayim by the roadside?" And they said, "There is no cult prostitute here."

Genesis 38:22

Then he returned to Judah and said, "I could not find her. Morever, the men of the place said, 'There is no cult prostitute here.'"

Genesis 38:23

And Judah said, "Let her take [them] for herself, lest we be {laughed at}. Behold, I sent this kid, but you could not find her."

Genesis 38:24

And {about three months later} it was told to Judah, "Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the whore, and now, behold, she has conceived by prostitution." And Judah said, "Bring her out and let her be burned."

Genesis 38:25

She was brought out, but she sent to her father-in-law saying, "By the man to whom these [belong] I have conceived." And she said, "Now discern to whom these [belong]: the seal and cord and the staff."

Genesis 38:26

Then Judah recognized [them] and said, "She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not know her again.

Genesis 38:27

And it happened [that] at the time she gave birth that, behold, twins [were] in her womb.

Genesis 38:28

And it happened [that] at her labor one [child] put out a hand. And the midwife took [it] and tied a crimson thread on his hand saying, "This [one] came out first."

Genesis 38:29

Then his hand drew back and, behold, his brother came out, and she said, "What a breach you have made for yourself!" And she called his name Perez.

Genesis 38:30

And afterward his brother who [had] the crimson thread on his hand came out. And his name was called Zerah.
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