Genesis 38:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And 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.

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  • 2 Sam 12:9 : 9 Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon.
  • Prov 6:33 : 33 Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.
  • Rom 6:21 : 21 What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong.
  • Eph 5:12 : 12 For the things which are done by them in secret it is shame even to put into words.
  • Rev 16:15 : 15 (See, I come as a thief. Happy is he who is watching and keeps his robes, so that he may not go unclothed, and his shame be seen.)

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  • Gen 38:24-27
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    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.

    25And while she was being taken out, she sent word to her father-in-law, saying, The man whose property these things are, is the father of my child: say then, whose are this ring and this cord and this stick?

    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.

  • Gen 38:11-22
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    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?

    17And he said, I will give you a young goat from the flock. And she said, What will you give me as a sign till you send it?

    18And he said, What would you have? And she said, Your ring and its cord and the stick in your hand. So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she became with child by him.

    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.

  • Gen 38:1-2
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    1Now at that time, Judah went away from his brothers and became the friend of a man of Adullam named Hirah.

    2And there he saw the daughter of a certain man of Canaan named Shua, and took her as his wife.

  • Gen 38:5-6
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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.

  • Gen 38:8
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    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.

  • Deut 22:17
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    17And now he has put shame on her, saying that she is not a virgin; but here is the sign that she is a virgin. Then they are to put her clothing before the responsible men of the town.

  • Deut 22:14
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    14And says evil things about her and gives her a bad name, saying, I took this woman, and when I had connection with her it was clear to me that she was not a virgin:

  • 2 Sam 13:13
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    13What will become of me in my shame? and as for you, you will be looked down on with disgust by all Israel. Now then, go and make your request to the king, for he will not keep me from you.

  • Jer 3:7
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    7And I said, After she has done all these things she will come back to me; but she did not. And her false sister Judah saw it.

  • Gen 43:8
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    8Put him into my care and make me responsible for him: if I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

  • Ruth 4:12
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    12May your family be like the family of Perez, the son whom Tamar gave to Judah, from the offspring which the Lord may give you by this young woman.

  • Gen 39:13
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    13And when she saw that he had got away, letting her keep his coat,