Genesis 38:6

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 21:21 : 21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
  • Gen 24:3 : 3 I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
  • Matt 1:3 : 3 Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.

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  • Gen 38:7-8
    2 verses
    84%

    7Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him.

    8Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother."

  • Gen 38:1-5
    5 verses
    80%

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

    2Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. 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.

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

  • Gen 38:10-16
    7 verses
    80%

    10The thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he killed him also.

    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.

    12After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

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

    14She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.

    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?"

  • Gen 38:23-27
    5 verses
    78%

    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.

    27It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.

  • 1 Chr 2:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua's daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh; and he killed him.

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

  • Matt 1:3
    71%

    3Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.

  • Ruth 4:12
    70%

    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."

  • Gen 38:19-20
    2 verses
    69%

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

    20Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he didn't find her.

  • Num 26:19
    69%

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

  • 1 Chr 2:26
    68%

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

  • Gen 46:12
    67%

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