Genesis 38:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Gen 25:24 : 24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

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  • Gen 25:22-24
    3 verses
    85%

    22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it is so, why am I this way? So she went to inquire of the LORD.

    23 And the LORD said to her, Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples shall be separated from your body; and one people shall be stronger than the other, and the older shall serve the younger.

    24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

  • Gen 38:28-30
    3 verses
    84%

    28 As she was giving birth, one put out his hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread to his hand, saying, This one came out first.

    29 But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out. She said, How have you broken through? This breach is upon you. Therefore he was named Perez.

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

  • Gen 38:23-26
    4 verses
    80%

    23 Judah said, Let her keep them, lest we become a laughingstock; after all, I sent the young goat, and you did not find her.

    24 About three months later, it was told Judah, Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot; moreover, she is pregnant by harlotry. Judah said, Bring her out, and let her be burned.

    25 As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law, saying, By the man to whom these belong, I am pregnant. She also said, Discern, please, whose these are—the signet, the bracelets, and the staff.

    26 Judah acknowledged them and said, She has been more righteous than I, because I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he never knew her again.

  • Gen 29:34-35
    2 verses
    77%

    34 And she conceived again and bore a son and said, Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons; therefore his name was called Levi.

    35 And she conceived again and bore a son and said, Now I will praise the LORD; therefore she called his name Judah; and she stopped bearing.

  • Gen 38:3-6
    4 verses
    76%

    3 She conceived and bore a son, and he named him Er.

    4 She conceived again and bore a son, and she named him Onan.

    5 Yet again she conceived and bore a son, and named him Shelah; and he was at Chezib when she bore him.

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

  • Gen 35:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was only a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel was in labor, and she had hard labor.

    17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Do not fear; you shall have this son also.

  • Gen 30:7
    72%

    7 Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

  • 1 Chr 2:4
    72%

    4 And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, bore him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

  • Gen 30:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22 God remembered Rachel, listened to her, and opened her womb.

    23 She conceived and bore a son and said, "God has taken away my reproach."

  • Gen 38:11
    72%

    11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, Stay a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up; for he thought, Lest he also die like his brothers. So Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

  • Gen 44:27
    72%

    27 And your servant my father said to us, You know that my wife bore me two sons:

  • Gen 38:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18 He said, What pledge shall I give you? She replied, Your signet, your bracelets, and your staff that is in your hand. So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him.

    19 Then she arose and went away, and taking off her veil, she put on her widow’s garments again.

  • Gen 38:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

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

    16 He turned to her by the roadside and said, Let me come in to you; for he did not know she was his daughter-in-law. She said, What will you give me, that you may come in to me?

  • Gen 38:1
    71%

    1 At that time, Judah left his brothers and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

  • Gen 30:3
    71%

    3 She said, "Here is my maid Bilhah; go into her, and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her."

  • Gen 25:26
    71%

    26 And after that his brother came out, and his hand took hold of Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

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

    17 And one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I gave birth to a child with her in the house.

    18 And it came to pass the third day after I had given birth, that this woman also gave birth: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, only we two in the house.

  • Gen 35:23
    70%

    23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:

  • Gen 30:5
    70%

    5 Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

  • Gen 29:31
    70%

    31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

  • Matt 1:2
    70%

    2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judah and his brothers;

  • Gen 38:13
    70%

    13 Tamar was told, Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

  • Ruth 4:12
    70%

    12 And may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring which the LORD will give you by this young woman.'

  • Gen 30:12
    70%

    12 Zilpah, Leah's maid, bore Jacob a second son.

  • 1 Chr 5:2
    69%

    2 For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's.

  • Mic 5:3
    69%

    3 Therefore he will give them up, until the time that she who labors has brought forth; then the remnant of his brethren shall return to the children of Israel.