Genesis 38:27

World English Bible (2000)

It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.

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  • Gen 25:24 : 24 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%

    22The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh.

    23Yahweh said to her, "Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger."

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

  • Gen 38:28-30
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    28When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first."

    29It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez.

    30Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.

  • Gen 38:23-26
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    23Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven't found her."

    24It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." 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, I am with child." She also said, "Please discern whose are these--the signet, and the cords, and the staff."

    26Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son." He knew her again no more.

  • Gen 29:34-35
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    77%

    34She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.

    35She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

  • Gen 38:3-6
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    3She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.

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

    5She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.

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

  • Gen 35:16-17
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    16They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

    17When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son."

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

  • 4Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

  • Gen 30:22-23
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    22God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

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

  • 11Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

  • 27Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons:

  • Gen 38:18-19
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    18He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She said, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.

    19She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

  • Gen 38:15-16
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    71%

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

    16He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"

  • 1It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

  • 3She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."

  • 26After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

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    17The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.

    18It happened the third day after I delivered, that this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.

  • 23The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

  • 5Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

  • 31Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

  • 2Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.

  • 13It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."

  • 12Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which Yahweh shall give you of this young woman."

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

  • 2For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph's:)

  • 3Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.