Genesis 38:20

Geneva Bible (1560)

Afterwarde 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.

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  • Gen 20:9 : 9 Afterward Abimelech called Abraham, and said vnto him, What hast thou done vnto vs? and what haue I offeded thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdome this great sinne? thou hast done things vnto me that ought not to be done.
  • Lev 19:17 : 17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart, but thou shalt plainely rebuke thy neighbour, and suffer him not to sinne.
  • Judg 14:20 : 20 Then Samsons wife was giuen to his companion, whom he had vsed as his friend.
  • 2 Sam 13:3 : 3 But Amnon had a friend called Ionadab, the sonne of Shimeah Dauids brother: and Ionadab was a very subtile man.
  • Luke 23:12 : 12 And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were enemies one to another.

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  • Gen 38:21-27
    7 verses
    85%

    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.

    25When she was brought foorth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, vnto whom these things pertaine, am I with childe: and saide also, Looke, I pray thee, whose these are, the seale, and the cloke, and the staffe.

    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 38:11-19
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    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?

    17Then said he, I will sende thee a kid of the goates from the flocke; she said, Well, if thou wilt giue me a pledge, till thou sende it.

    18Then he saide, What is the pledge that I shall giue thee? And she answered, Thy signet, and thy cloke, and thy staffe that is in thine hande. So he gaue it her, and lay by her, and she was with childe by him.

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

  • Gen 38:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

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

    2And Iudah sawe there the daughter of a man called Suah a Canaanite: and he tooke her to wife, and went in vnto her.

  • Deut 22:27-28
    2 verses
    71%

    27For he found her in the fieldes: the betrothed mayde cryed, and there was no man to succour her.

    28If a man finde a mayde that is not betrothed, and take her, and lye with her, and they be founde,

  • Deut 22:17
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    17And lo, he layeth slaunderous things vnto her charge, saying, I founde not thy daughter a mayde: loe, these are the tokens of my daughters virginitie: and they shal spreade the vesture before the Elders of the citie.

  • Gen 39:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12Therefore she caught him by his garmet, saying, Sleepe with me: but he left his garment in her hand and fled, and got him out.

    13Nowe when she sawe that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled out,

  • Deut 22:20
    70%

    20But if this thing be true, that the mayde be not found a virgine,

  • Deut 22:14
    70%

    14And laye slaunderous thinges vnto her charge, and bring vp an euill name vpon her, and say, I tooke this wife, and when I came to her, I found her not a mayde,

  • Judg 19:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    2And his concubine played ye whore there, and went away from him vnto her fathers house to Beth-lehem Iudah, and there continued the space of foure moneths.

    3And her husband arose and went after her, to speake friendly vnto her, and to bring her againe: he had also his seruant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him vnto her fathers house, and when the yong womans father sawe him, he reioyced of his coming.

  • Prov 20:16
    69%

    16Take his garment, that is suretie for a stranger, and a pledge of him for the stranger.

  • Judg 11:38
    69%

    38And he sayde, Goe: and he sent her away two moneths: so she went with her companions, and lamented her virginitie vpon the moutaines.

  • Prov 27:13
    69%

    13Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and a pledge of him for the stranger.

  • Jer 3:7-10
    4 verses
    68%

    7And I sayde, when shee had done all this, Turne thou vnto me: but she returned not, as her rebellious sister Iudah sawe.

    8When I sawe, howe that by all occasions rebellious Israel had plaied the harlot, I cast her away, and gaue her a bill of diuorcement: yet her rebellious sister Iudah was not afraied, but shee went also, and plaied the harlot.

    9So that for the lightnesse of her whoredome shee hath euen defiled the lande: for shee hath committed fornication with stones and stockes.

    10Neuerthelesse for all this, her rebellious sister Iudah hath not returned vnto mee with her whole heart, but fainedly, sayth the Lord.

  • Gen 38:6
    68%

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

  • Gen 38:8
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    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 39:18
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    18But assoone as I lift vp my voyce & cried, he left his garment with me, and fled out.

  • Gen 39:16
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    16So she layde vp his garment by her, vntill her lord came home.

  • Gen 24:38
    67%

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

  • Gen 24:8
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    8Neuertheles if the woman wil not followe thee, then shalt thou bee discharged of this mine othe: onely bring not my sonne thither againe.

  • Judg 19:28
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    28And hee said vnto her, Vp and let vs goe: but shee answered not. Then he tooke her vp vpon the asse, and the man rose vp, and went vnto his place.