Genesis 38:22
So 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.’”
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- Gen 38:13-219 verses93%
13Tamar was told,“Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
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?”
18He said,“What pledge should I give you?” She replied,“Your seal, your cord, and the staff that’s in your hand.” So he gave them to her, then slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
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.”
- Gen 38:23-264 verses84%
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.
- Jer 3:7-104 verses74%
7Yet even after she had done all that, I thought that she might come back to me. But she did not. Her sister, unfaithful Judah, saw what she did.
8She also saw that, because of wayward Israel’s adulterous worship of other gods, I sent her away and gave her divorce papers. But still her unfaithful sister Judah was not afraid, and she too went and gave herself like a prostitute to other gods.
9Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she defiled the land through her adulterous worship of gods made of wood and stone.
10In spite of all this, Israel’s sister, unfaithful Judah, has not turned back to me with any sincerity; she has only pretended to do so,” says the LORD.
- Gen 38:1-22 verses73%
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.
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14accusing her of impropriety and defaming her reputation by saying,“I married this woman but when I approached her for marital relations I discovered she was not a virgin!”
- Deut 22:27-282 verses72%
27for the man met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.
28Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and takes hold of her and sleeps with her and they are discovered.
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17Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying,‘I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,’ but this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” The cloth must then be spread out before the city’s elders.
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20But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,
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2However, she got angry at him and went home to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,
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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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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.
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31But Simeon and Levi replied,“Should he treat our sister like a common prostitute?”
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30returned to his brothers, and said,“The boy isn’t there! And I, where can I go?”
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7Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch them; she will seek them, but she will not find them. Then she will say,“I will go back to my husband, because I was better off then than I am now.”
- Gen 39:13-142 verses69%
13When she saw that he had left his outer garment in her hand and had run outside,
14she called for her household servants and said to them,“See, my husband brought in a Hebrew man to us to humiliate us. He tried to go to bed with me, but I screamed loudly.
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10Suddenly a woman came out to meet him! She was dressed like a prostitute and with secret intent.
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4But the woman hid the two men and replied,“Yes, these men were clients of mine, but I didn’t know where they came from.
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43Then I said about the one worn out by adultery,‘Now they will commit immoral acts with her.’
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22They went to the hill country and stayed there for three days, long enough for those chasing them to return. Their pursuers looked all along the way but did not find them.
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15When Joseph reached Shechem, a man found him wandering in the field, so the man asked him,“What are you looking for?”
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3Then I told her,“You must live with me many days; you must not commit adultery or become joined to another man, and I also will wait for you.”
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8He was passing by the street near her corner, making his way along the road to her house
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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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13How could I ever be rid of my humiliation? And you would be considered one of the fools in Israel! Just speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”