Genesis 38:15

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When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, because she had covered her face.

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  • Gen 38:16
    84%

    16 He turned aside to her by the roadside and said, 'Come now, let me sleep with you.' He did not know she was his daughter-in-law. She asked, 'What will you give me to sleep with you?'

  • Gen 38:11-14
    4 verses
    84%

    11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, 'Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up,' for he thought, 'He might die too, just like his brothers.' So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

    12 After a long time, Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he went up to Timnah to his sheep shearers, accompanied by his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

    13 When Tamar was told, 'Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,'

    14 So she took off her widow's garments, covered herself with a veil, wrapped herself up, and sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. She saw that Shelah had grown up, but she had not been given to him as a wife.

  • Gen 38:18-27
    10 verses
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    18 He asked, 'What pledge should I give you?' She answered, 'Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand.' So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she conceived by him.

    19 Then she got up and left, took off her veil, and put back on her widow's garments.

    20 Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite to retrieve the pledge from the woman, but he could not find her.

    21 He asked the men of the place, 'Where is the prostitute who was by the road at Enaim?' They replied, 'There has been no prostitute here.'

    22 So he returned to Judah and said, 'I couldn’t find her. Furthermore, the men of the place said, "There has been no prostitute here."'

    23 Judah said, 'Let her keep what she has, or we will become a laughingstock. After all, I sent her this young goat, but you didn’t find her.'

    24 About three months later, Judah was told, 'Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant as a result.' Judah said, 'Bring her out and let her be burned!'

    25 As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law, saying, 'I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.' And she added, 'Please examine them. Whose seal, cord, and staff are these?'

    26 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 have relations with her again.

    27 When the time came for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

  • Gen 38:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1 At that time, Judah left his brothers and turned aside to a certain Adullamite man named Hirah.

    2 There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and had relations with her.

  • Gen 39:12-14
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    12 She caught him by his garment and said, "Sleep with me!" But Joseph left his garment in her hand, ran away, and went outside.

    13 When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and fled outside,

    14 she called her household servants and said to them, "Look, this Hebrew man has been brought to us to mock us! He came to me to lie with me, but I screamed loudly.

  • Gen 38:6
    73%

    6 Judah arranged a wife for Er, his firstborn son. Her name was Tamar.

  • Jer 3:7-9
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    7 I thought, 'After she has done all this, she will return to me.' But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.

    8 I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and prostituted herself.

    9 Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

  • Gen 38:8
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    8 Then Judah said to Onan, 'Lie with your brother's widow, perform your duty as her brother-in-law, and produce offspring for your brother.'

  • Deut 22:14
    72%

    14 accusing her of misconduct and giving her a bad name by saying, 'I married this woman, but when I came to her, I did not find proof of her virginity,'

  • Prov 7:13
    71%

    13 She took hold of him and kissed him; with a brazen face she said to him:

  • Gen 24:65
    71%

    65 She said to the servant, 'Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?' The servant replied, 'He is my master.' So she took her veil and covered herself.

  • Ezek 23:18
    70%

    18 When she openly displayed her prostitution and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.

  • Prov 7:10
    70%

    10 And behold, a woman came to meet him, dressed like a prostitute and sly of heart.

  • Mal 2:11
    70%

    11 Judah has been unfaithful, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which He loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

  • Gen 34:2
    70%

    2 And Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He seized her, lay with her, and violated her.

  • Gen 34:31
    70%

    31 But they replied, "Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?"

  • Ezek 23:16
    70%

    16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

  • Deut 22:17
    70%

    17 And now he has made false accusations against her, saying, 'I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.' But here is the evidence of my daughter's virginity.' Then they shall spread out the cloth before the elders of the city.