Genesis 38:6

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 21:21 : 21 And he dwelt in the wildernesse of Paran, and his mother tooke him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
  • 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.
  • Matt 1:3 : 3 And Iudas begate Phares, and Zara of Thamar; Phares begate Esrom; Esrom begate Aram.

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  • Gen 38:7-8
    2 verses
    84%

    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 38:1-5
    5 verses
    80%

    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.

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

    4And she conceiued againe, & bare a sonne, and she called his name Onan.

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

  • Gen 38:10-16
    7 verses
    80%

    10And it was wicked in the eyes of the Lord, which he did: wherefore he slewe him also.

    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 38:23-27
    5 verses
    78%

    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.

  • 1 Chr 2:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Matt 1:3
    71%

    3And Iudas begate Phares, and Zara of Thamar; Phares begate Esrom; Esrom begate Aram.

  • Ruth 4:12
    70%

    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.

  • Gen 38:19-20
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

  • Num 26:19
    69%

    19The sonnes of Iudah, Er and Onan: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

  • 1 Chr 2:26
    68%

    26Also Ierahmeel had another wife named Atarah, which was the mother of Onam.

  • Gen 46:12
    67%

    12Also 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.