Genesis 38:27

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

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  • Gen 25:24 : 24 When the time came for her to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.

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  • Gen 25:22-24
    3 verses
    85%

    22The children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, 'If it is like this, why is this happening to me?' So she went to inquire of the LORD.

    23The LORD said to her, 'Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated. One people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.'

    24When the time came for her to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.

  • Gen 38:28-30
    3 verses
    84%

    28As she was giving birth, one of them extended his hand, and the midwife tied a scarlet thread around it, saying, 'This one came out first.'

    29But then he pulled his hand back, and his brother came out. She said, 'What a breach you have made for yourself!' So he was named Perez.

    30Afterward, his brother came out with the scarlet thread on his hand, and he was named Zerah.

  • Gen 38:23-26
    4 verses
    80%

    23Judah 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.'

    24About 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!'

    25As 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?'

    26Judah 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.

  • Gen 29:34-35
    2 verses
    77%

    34She conceived again and gave birth to a son and said, 'Now at this time my husband will be attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.' Therefore, he was named Levi.

    35She conceived yet again and gave birth to a son and said, 'This time I will praise the LORD.' Therefore, she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.

  • Gen 38:3-6
    4 verses
    76%

    3She conceived and gave birth to a son, and he named him Er.

    4She conceived again and gave birth to another son, and she named him Onan.

    5She gave birth to yet another son and named him Shelah. Judah was in Chezib when she gave birth to him.

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

  • Gen 35:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16Then they set out from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.

    17During her hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don’t be afraid, for you have another son!"

  • Gen 30:7
    72%

    7Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

  • 1 Chr 2:4
    72%

    4Tamar, Judah’s daughter-in-law, gave birth to Perez and Zerah. The total number of Judah’s sons was five.

  • Gen 30:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb.

    23She conceived and gave birth to a son and said, 'God has taken away my disgrace.'

  • Gen 38:11
    72%

    11Then 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.

  • Gen 44:27
    72%

    27Then your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.'

  • Gen 38:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18He 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.

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

  • Gen 38:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, because she had covered her face.

    16He 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 38:1
    71%

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

  • Gen 30:3
    71%

    3Then she said, 'Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me, and through her, I too can build a family.'

  • Gen 25:26
    71%

    26After that, his brother came out with his hand grasping Esau's heel. So he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.

  • 1 Kgs 3:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17One of them said, 'My lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth to a child while she was there with me.'

    18On the third day after I gave birth, this woman also gave birth. We were together, and there was no one else with us in the house—just the two of us.

  • Gen 35:23
    70%

    23The sons of Leah: Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

  • Gen 30:5
    70%

    5Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

  • Gen 29:31
    70%

    31When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb, but Rachel remained barren.

  • Matt 1:2
    70%

    2Abraham was the father of Isaac; Isaac was the father of Jacob; Jacob was the father of Judah and his brothers.

  • Gen 38:13
    70%

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

  • Ruth 4:12
    70%

    12May your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, through the offspring that the Lord will give you by this young woman.

  • Gen 30:12
    70%

    12Leah’s maidservant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.

  • 1 Chr 5:2
    69%

    2Though Judah became strong among his brothers and a leader came from him, the birthright belonged to Joseph.

  • Mic 5:3
    69%

    3He will stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they will live securely, for his greatness will reach to the ends of the earth.