Genesis 38:13
Tamar was told,“Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
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- Gen 38:14-174 verses85%
14So she removed her widow’s clothes and covered herself with a veil. She wrapped herself and sat at the entrance to Enaim which is on the way to Timnah.(She did this because she saw that she had not been given to Shelah as a wife, even though he had now grown up.)
15When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.
16He turned aside to her along the road and said,“Come, please, I want to sleep with you.”(He did not realize it was his daughter-in-law.) She asked,“What will you give me so that you may sleep with me?”
17He replied,“I’ll send you a young goat from the flock.” She asked,“Will you give me a pledge until you send it?”
- Gen 38:11-122 verses84%
11Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar,“Live as a widow in your father’s house until Shelah my son grows up.” For he thought,“I don’t want him to die like his brothers.” So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
12After some time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. After Judah was consoled, he left for Timnah to visit his sheepshearers, along with his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
- Gen 38:19-279 verses78%
19She left immediately, removed her veil, and put on her widow’s clothes.
20Then Judah had his friend Hirah the Adullamite take a young goat to get back from the woman the items he had given in pledge, but Hirah could not find her.
21He asked the men who were there,“Where is the cult prostitute who was at Enaim by the road?” But they replied,“There has been no cult prostitute here.”
22So he returned to Judah and said,“I couldn’t find her. Moreover, the men of the place said,‘There has been no cult prostitute here.’”
23Judah said,“Let her keep the things for herself. Otherwise we will appear to be dishonest. I did indeed send this young goat, but you couldn’t find her.”
24After three months Judah was told,“Your daughter-in-law Tamar has turned to prostitution, and as a result she has become pregnant.” Judah said,“Bring her out and let her be burned!”
25While they were bringing her out, she sent word to her father-in-law:“I am pregnant by the man to whom these belong.” Then she said,“Identify the one to whom the seal, cord, and staff belong.”
26Judah recognized them and said,“She is more upright than I am, because I wouldn’t give her to Shelah my son.” He was not physically intimate with her again.
27When it was time for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.
- Gen 38:5-62 verses72%
5Then she had yet another son, whom she named Shelah. She gave birth to him in Kezib.
6Judah acquired a wife for Er his firstborn; her name was Tamar.
- Gen 38:1-22 verses72%
1Judah and Tamar At that time Judah left his brothers and stayed with an Adullamite man named Hirah.
2There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. Judah acquired her as a wife and slept with her.
- 2 Sam 13:18-203 verses71%
18(Now she was wearing a long robe, for this is what the king’s virgin daughters used to wear.) So Amnon’s attendant removed her and bolted the door behind her.
19Then Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe she was wearing. She put her hands on her head and went on her way, wailing as she went.
20Her brother Absalom said to her,“Was Amnon your brother with you? Now be quiet, my sister. He is your brother. Don’t take it so seriously!” Tamar, devastated, lived in the house of her brother Absalom.
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8Then Judah said to Onan,“Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her so that you may raise up a descendant for your brother.”
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38He said,“You may go.” He permitted her to leave for two months. She went with her friends and mourned her virginity as she walked through the hills.
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4Tamar, Judah’s daughter-in-law, bore to him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.
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12May your family become like the family of Perez– whom Tamar bore to Judah– through the descendants the LORD gives you by this young woman.”
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5Jonadab replied to him,“Lie down on your bed and pretend to be sick. When your father comes in to see you, say to him,‘Please let my sister Tamar come in so she can fix some food for me. Let her prepare the food in my sight so I can watch. Then I will eat from her hand.’”
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4When David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep,
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38but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’
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24Then Absalom went to the king and said,“My shearers have begun their work. Let the king and his servants go with me.”
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12When his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,