Genesis 38:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now at that time, Judah went away from his brothers and became the friend of a man of Adullam named Hirah.

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  • 1 Sam 22:1 : 1 So David went away from there and took cover in a strong place at Adullam; and his brothers and all his father's people, hearing of it, went down to him there.
  • 2 Sam 23:13 : 13 And three of the thirty went down at the start of the grain-cutting, and they came to David at the strong place of Adullam; and the band of Philistines had taken up their position in the valley of Rephaim.
  • 2 Kgs 4:8 : 8 Now there came a day when Elisha went to Shunem, and there was a woman of high position living there, who made him come in and have a meal with her. And after that, every time he went by, he went into her house for a meal.
  • Josh 15:35 : 35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah;
  • Prov 13:20 : 20 Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.
  • Mic 1:15 : 15 Even now will the taker of your heritage come to you, you who are living in Mareshah: the glory of Israel will come to destruction for ever.
  • Judg 4:18 : 18 And Jael went out to Sisera, and said to him, Come in, my lord, come in to me without fear. So he went into her tent, and she put a cover over him.
  • Gen 19:2-3 : 2 And he said, My masters, come now into your servant's house and take your rest there for the night, and let your feet be washed; and early in the morning you may go on your way. And they said, Not so, but we will take our night's rest in the street. 3 But he made his request more strongly, so they went with him into his house; and he got food ready for them, and made unleavened bread, of which they took.
  • Josh 12:15 : 15 The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
  • Prov 9:6 : 6 Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.

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  • Gen 38:2-3
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    2And there he saw the daughter of a certain man of Canaan named Shua, and took her as his wife.

    3And she gave birth to a son, and he gave him the name Er.

  • Gen 38:11-16
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    78%

    11Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.

    12And after a time, Bath-shua, Judah's wife, came to her end; and after Judah was comforted for her loss, he went to Timnah, where they were cutting the wool of his sheep, and his friend Hirah of Adullam went with him.

    13And when Tamar had news that her father-in-law was going up to Timnah to the wool-cutting,

    14She took off her widow's clothing, and covering herself with her veil, she took her seat near Enaim on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was now a man, but she had not been made his wife.

    15When Judah saw her he took her to be a loose woman of the town, because her face was covered.

    16And turning to her by the roadside, he said to her, Let me come in to you; for he had no idea that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give me as my price?

  • Gen 38:19-24
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    19Then she got up and went away and took off her veil and put on her widow's clothing.

    20Then Judah sent his friend Hirah with the young goat, to get back the things which he had given as a sign to the woman: but she was not there.

    21And he put questions to the men of the place, saying, Where is the loose woman who was in Enaim by the wayside? And they said, There was no such woman there.

    22So he went back to Judah, and said, I have not seen her, and the men of the place say that there is no such woman there.

    23And Judah said, Let her keep the things, so that we may not be shamed; I sent the young goat, but you did not see the woman.

    24Now about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned.

  • Gen 38:5-8
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    5Then she had another son, to whom she gave the name Shelah; she was at Chezib when the birth took place.

    6And Judah took a wife for his first son Er, and her name was Tamar.

    7Now Er, Judah's first son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death.

    8Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife and do what it is right for a husband's brother to do; make her your wife and get offspring for your brother.

  • 1 Chr 2:3-4
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    3The sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah; these three were his sons by Bathshua, the Canaanite woman. And Er, Judah's oldest son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and he put him to death.

    4And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had Perez and Zerah by him. All the sons of Judah were five.

  • Matt 1:2-3
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    2The son of Abraham was Isaac; and the son of Isaac was Jacob; and the sons of Jacob were Judah and his brothers;

    3And the sons of Judah were Perez and Zerah by Tamar; and the son of Perez was Hezron; and the son of Hezron was Ram;

  • Gen 38:26-27
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    26Then Judah said openly that they were his, and said, She is more upright than I am, for I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he had no more connection with her.

    27And when the time came for her to give birth, it was clear that there were two children in her body.

  • Judg 1:9-10
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    9After that the children of Judah went down to make war on the Canaanites living in the hill-country and in the south and in the lowlands.

    10And Caleb went against the Canaanites of Hebron: (now in earlier times Hebron was named Kiriath-arba:) and he put Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai to the sword.

  • 1 Sam 22:1
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    1So David went away from there and took cover in a strong place at Adullam; and his brothers and all his father's people, hearing of it, went down to him there.

  • Gen 44:14
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    14So Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house; and he was still there: and they went down on their faces before him.

  • Luke 3:33
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    33The son of Amminadab, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,

  • Gen 24:38
    68%

    38But go to my father's house and to my relations for a wife for my son.

  • Judg 1:16
    68%

    16Now Hobab the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had come up out of the town of palm-trees, with the children of Judah, into the waste land of Arad; and he went and was living among the Amalekites;

  • Gen 46:28
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    28Now he had sent Judah before him to Goshen, to get word from Joseph; and so they came to the land of Goshen.