Genesis 38:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

And Iudah sawe there the daughter of a man called Suah a Canaanite: and he tooke her to wife, and went in vnto her.

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  • 1 Chr 2:3 : 3 The sonnes of Iudah, Er, and Onan, and Shelah. These three were borne to him of ye daughter of Shua the Canaanite: but Er the eldest sonne of Iudah was euil in the sight of the Lorde, and he slew him.
  • Gen 24:3 : 3 And I will make thee sweare by ye Lorde God of the heauen, and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife vnto my sonne of the daughters of the Canaanites among who I dwel.
  • Gen 34:2 : 2 Whome when Shechem the sonne of Hamor the Hiuite lorde of that countrey sawe, hee tooke her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
  • Gen 46:12 : 12 Also the sonnes of Iudah: Er, & Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: (but Er and Onan died in ye land of Canaan) And the sonnes of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
  • Judg 14:2 : 2 And he came vp and told his father and his mother and saide, I haue seene a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistims: now therfore giue me her to wife.
  • Judg 16:1 : 1 Then went Samson to Azzah, & sawe there an harlot, and went in vnto her.
  • 2 Sam 11:2 : 2 And when it was euening tide, Dauid arose out of his bed, and walked vpon the roofe of the Kings palace: and from the roofe he sawe a woman washing her selfe: and the woman was very beautifull to looke vpon.
  • 2 Cor 6:14 : 14 Be not vnequally yoked with the infidels: for what felowship hath righteousnesse with vnrighteousnesse? and what communion hath light with darkenesse?
  • Gen 3:6 : 6 So the woman (seeing that the tree was good for meate, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to get knowledge) tooke of the fruite thereof, and did eate, & gaue also to her husband with her, and he did eate.
  • Gen 6:2 : 2 Then the sonnes of God sawe the daughters of men that they were faire, & they tooke them wiues of all that they liked.
  • Gen 6:4 : 4 There were gyants in the earth in those dayes: yea, and after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of men, and they had borne them children, these were mightie men, which in olde time were men of renoume.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 38:1
    85%

    1And at that time Iudah went downe from his brethren, and turned in to a man called Hirah an Adullamite.

  • Gen 38:11-16
    6 verses
    80%

    11Then said Iudah to Tamar his daughter in lawe, Remaine a widowe in thy fathers house, till Shelah my sonne growe vp (for he thought thus, Least he die as well as his brethren.) So Tamar went and dwelt in her fathers house.

    12And in processe of time also the daughter of Shuah Iudahs wife dyed. Then Iudah, when he had left mourning, went vp to his sheepe sherers to Timnah, he, and his neighbour Hirah the Adullamite.

    13And it was tolde Tamar, saying, beholde, thy father in lawe goeth vp to Timnah, to shere his sheepe.

    14Then she put her widowes garments off from her, and couered her with a vaile, and wrapped her selfe, and sate downe in Pethah-enaim, which is by the way to Timnah, because she sawe that Shelah was growen, and she was not giuen vnto him to wife.

    15When Iudah sawe her, he iudged her an whore: for she had couered her face.

    16And he turned to the way towardes her, and saide, Come, I pray thee, let me lie with thee. (for he knewe not that she was his daughter in lawe) And she answered, What wilt thou giue me for to lie with me?

  • Gen 38:5-8
    4 verses
    78%

    5Moreouer she bare yet a sonne, whome she called Shelah: and Iudah was at Chezib when she bare him.

    6Then Iudah tooke a wife to Er his first borne sonne whose name was Tamar.

    7Now Er the first borne of Iudah was wicked in the sight of the Lord: therefore the Lord slewe him.

    8Then Iudah said to Onan, Goe in vnto thy brothers wife, and do the office of a kinsman vnto her, and raise vp seede vnto thy brother.

  • Gen 38:3
    76%

    3So she conceiued and bare a sonne, and he called his name Er.

  • 1 Chr 2:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3The sonnes of Iudah, Er, and Onan, and Shelah. These three were borne to him of ye daughter of Shua the Canaanite: but Er the eldest sonne of Iudah was euil in the sight of the Lorde, and he slew him.

    4And Thamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez, and Zerah: so al the sonnes of Iudah were fiue.

  • Gen 38:26-27
    2 verses
    75%

    26Then Iudah knewe them, and said, She is more righteous then I: for she hath done it because I gaue her not to Shelah my sonne. So he lay with her no more.

    27Now, when the time was come that she should be deliuered, beholde, there were twinnes in her wombe.

  • Gen 38:19-24
    6 verses
    74%

    19Then she rose, and went and put her vaile from her and put on her widowes raiment.

    20Afterwarde Iudah sent a kid of the goates by the hande of his neighbour the Adullamite, for to receiue his pledge from the womans hand: but he found her not.

    21Then asked he the men of that place, saying, Where is ye whore, that sate in Enaim by the way side? And they answered, There was no whore here.

    22He came therefore to Iudah againe, and said, I can not finde her, and also the men of the place said, There was no whore there.

    23Then Iudah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: beholde, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

    24Now after three moneths, one tolde Iudah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the whore, and lo, with playing the whore, she is great with childe. Then Iudah saide, Bring ye her foorth and let her be burnt.

  • Mal 2:11
    70%

    11Iudah hath transgressed, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Ierusalem: for Iudah hath defiled the holinesse of the Lorde, which hee loued, and hath maried the daughter of a strange God.

  • Gen 34:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1Then Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare vnto Iaakob, went out to see the daughters of that countrey.

    2Whome when Shechem the sonne of Hamor the Hiuite lorde of that countrey sawe, hee tooke her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

  • Gen 24:38
    69%

    38But thou shalt go vnto my fathers house and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sonne.

  • Gen 30:4
    69%

    4Then shee gaue him Bilhah her mayde to wife, and Iaakob went in to her.

  • Exod 2:1
    69%

    1Then there went a man of the house of Leui, and tooke to wife a daughter of Leui,

  • Ruth 4:12
    68%

    12And that thine house be like the house of Pharez ( whom Thamar bare vnto Iudah) of the seede which the Lord shall giue thee of this yong woman.

  • Hos 1:3
    68%

    3So he went, & tooke Gomer, ye daughter of Diblaim, which conceiued & bare him a sonne.