Genesis 38:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Gen 21:21 : 21 And he lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
  • Gen 24:3 : 3 and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.
  • Matt 1:3 : 3 And Judah begat Perez and Zerah by Tamar; and Perez begat Hezron; and Hezron begat Aram;

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  • Gen 38:7-8
    2 verses
    84%

    7But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; so the LORD put him to death.

    8Then Judah said to Onan, Go to your brother’s wife, marry her, and raise offspring for your brother.

  • Gen 38:1-5
    5 verses
    80%

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

    2There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; he took her and went in to her.

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

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

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

  • Gen 38:10-16
    7 verses
    80%

    10What he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD, so He put him to death also.

    11Then 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.

    12After some time, Shuah's daughter, Judah's wife, died; after being comforted, Judah went up to his sheepshearers at Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

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

    14So she took off her widow’s garments, covered herself with a veil, wrapped herself, and sat by the roadside in an open place, which is on the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.

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

    16He 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 38:23-27
    5 verses
    78%

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

    24About 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.

    25As 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.

    26Judah 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.

    27When the time came for her to give birth, behold, there were twins in her womb.

  • 1 Chr 2:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by the daughter of Shua, the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD, and He put him to death.

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

  • Matt 1:3
    71%

    3And Judah begat Perez and Zerah by Tamar; and Perez begat Hezron; and Hezron begat Aram;

  • Ruth 4:12
    70%

    12And 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 38:19-20
    2 verses
    69%

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

    20Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he could not find her.

  • Num 26:19
    69%

    19The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

  • 1 Chr 2:26
    68%

    26Jerahmeel also had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.

  • Gen 46:12
    67%

    12And the sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Pharez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.