Genesis 38:14

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which [is] by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.

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  • Gen 38:26 : 26 And Judah acknowledged [them], and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
  • Prov 7:12 : 12 Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
  • Jer 3:2 : 2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
  • Ezek 16:25 : 25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
  • Gen 24:65 : 65 For she [had] said unto the servant, What man [is] this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant [had] said, It [is] my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
  • Gen 38:11-13 : 11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren [did]. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house. 12 ¶ And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. 13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 38:18-27
    10 verses
    85%

    18And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that [is] in thine hand. And he gave [it] her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.

    19And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

    20And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive [his] pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not.

    21Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where [is] the harlot, that [was] openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this [place].

    22And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, [that] there was no harlot in this [place].

    23And Judah said, Let her take [it] to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

    24¶ And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she [is] with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.

    25When she [was] brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these [are, am] I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose [are] these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.

    26And Judah acknowledged [them], and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.

    27And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins [were] in her womb.

  • Gen 38:11-13
    3 verses
    85%

    11Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren [did]. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

    12¶ And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

    13And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

  • Gen 38:15-16
    2 verses
    84%

    15When Judah saw her, he thought her [to be] an harlot; because she had covered her face.

    16And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she [was] his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?

  • 2 Sam 13:18-20
    3 verses
    76%

    18And [she had] a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters [that were] virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.

    19And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that [was] on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.

    20And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he [is] thy brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.

  • Gen 38:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.

    6And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name [was] Tamar.

  • Gen 38:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1¶ And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name [was] Hirah.

    2And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name [was] Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.

  • Judg 11:37-38
    2 verses
    70%

    37And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.

    38And he said, Go. And he sent her away [for] two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

  • Ruth 3:14
    68%

    14¶ And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.

  • Gen 38:8
    68%

    8And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

  • Gen 39:13
    68%

    13¶ And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,

  • Ruth 4:12
    68%

    12And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman.

  • Deut 22:14
    68%

    14And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: