1And at that time Iudah went downe from his brethren, and turned in to a man called Hirah an Adullamite.

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2 Kings 4:8, 1 Samuel 22:1, 2 Kings 4:8, 1 Samuel 22:1, Genesis 19:2

2And Iudah sawe there the daughter of a man called Suah a Canaanite: and he tooke her to wife, and went in vnto her.

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1 Chronicles 2:3, 1 Chronicles 2:3, Genesis 24:3, Genesis 24:3, Genesis 6:2

3So she conceiued and bare a sonne, and he called his name Er.

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Numbers 26:19, Genesis 46:12, Numbers 26:19, Genesis 46:12

4And she conceiued againe, and bare a sonne, and she called his name Onan.

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Genesis 46:12, Genesis 46:12, Numbers 26:19, Numbers 26:19

5Moreouer she bare yet a sonne, whome she called Shelah: and Iudah was at Chezib when she bare him.

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Numbers 26:20, Numbers 26:20, 1 Chronicles 4:21, Genesis 38:11, Genesis 46:12

6Then Iudah tooke a wife to Er his first borne sonne whose name was Tamar.

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Genesis 24:3, Genesis 21:21, Matthew 1:3, Genesis 24:3, Genesis 21:21

7Now Er the first borne of Iudah was wicked in the sight of the Lord: therefore the Lord slewe him.

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1 Chronicles 2:3, 1 Chronicles 2:3, Genesis 46:12, Genesis 46:12, Numbers 26:19

8Then Iudah said to Onan, Goe in vnto thy brothers wife, and do the office of a kinsman vnto her, and raise vp seede vnto thy brother.

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Matthew 22:23, Matthew 22:27, Matthew 22:23, Matthew 22:27, Deuteronomy 25:5

9And Onan knewe that the seede should not be his: therefore when he went in vnto his brothers wife, he spilled it on the grounde, least he should giue seede vnto his brother.

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James 3:16, James 4:5, Titus 3:3, James 3:16, James 4:5

10And it was wicked in the eyes of the Lord, which he did: wherefore he slewe him also.

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Genesis 46:12, Genesis 46:12, Numbers 11:1, Numbers 26:19, Numbers 11:1

11Then said Iudah to Tamar his daughter in lawe, Remaine a widowe in thy fathers house, till Shelah my sonne growe vp (for he thought thus, Least he die as well as his brethren.) So Tamar went and dwelt in her fathers house.

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Leviticus 22:13, Leviticus 22:13, Ruth 1:11, Ruth 1:13, Ruth 1:11

12And in processe of time also the daughter of Shuah Iudahs wife dyed. Then Iudah, when he had left mourning, went vp to his sheepe sherers to Timnah, he, and his neighbour Hirah the Adullamite.

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Joshua 15:10, Joshua 15:10, 2 Samuel 13:39, Genesis 24:67, Judges 14:1

13And it was tolde Tamar, saying, beholde, thy father in lawe goeth vp to Timnah, to shere his sheepe.

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14Then she put her widowes garments off from her, and couered her with a vaile, and wrapped her selfe, and sate downe in Pethah-enaim, which is by the way to Timnah, because she sawe that Shelah was growen, and she was not giuen vnto him to wife.

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Genesis 38:26, Genesis 38:26, Genesis 24:65, Genesis 38:11, Genesis 38:13

15When Iudah sawe her, he iudged her an whore: for she had couered her face.

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16And he turned to the way towardes her, and saide, Come, I pray thee, let me lie with thee. (for he knewe not that she was his daughter in lawe) And she answered, What wilt thou giue me for to lie with me?

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Matthew 26:15, 2 Samuel 13:11, 1 Timothy 6:10, Matthew 26:15, 2 Samuel 13:11

17Then said he, I will sende thee a kid of the goates from the flocke. and she said, Well, if thou wilt giue me a pledge, till thou sende it.

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Ezekiel 16:33, Genesis 38:20, Ezekiel 16:33, Genesis 38:20, Genesis 38:24

18Then he saide, What is the pledge that I shall giue thee? And she answered, Thy signet, and thy cloke, and thy staffe that is in thine hande. So he gaue it her, and lay by her, and she was with childe by him.

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Genesis 38:25, Genesis 38:26, Genesis 38:25, Genesis 38:26, Hosea 4:11

19Then she rose, and went and put her vaile from her and put on her widowes raiment.

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Genesis 38:14, Genesis 38:14, 2 Samuel 14:2, 2 Samuel 14:5, 2 Samuel 14:2

20Afterwarde Iudah sent a kid of the goates by the hande of his neighbour the Adullamite, for to receiue his pledge from the womans hand: but he found her not.

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2 Samuel 13:3, Leviticus 19:17, Luke 23:12, Genesis 20:9, Judges 14:20

21Then asked he the men of that place, saying, Where is ye whore, that sate in Enaim by the way side? And they answered, There was no whore here.

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22He came therefore to Iudah againe, and said, I can not finde her, and also the men of the place said, There was no whore there.

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23Then Iudah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: beholde, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

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Revelation 16:15, 2 Corinthians 4:2, Proverbs 6:33, Ephesians 5:12, Romans 6:21

24Now after three moneths, one tolde Iudah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the whore, and lo, with playing the whore, she is great with childe. Then Iudah saide, Bring ye her foorth and let her be burnt.

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Leviticus 21:9, Leviticus 21:9, Ezekiel 23:5, Judges 19:2, Ezekiel 23:44

25When she was brought foorth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, vnto whom these things pertaine, am I with childe: and saide also, Looke, I pray thee, whose these are, the seale, and the cloke, and the staffe.

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Genesis 38:18, Genesis 37:32, Genesis 38:18, Genesis 37:32, 1 Corinthians 4:5

26Then Iudah knewe them, and said, She is more righteous then I: for she hath done it because I gaue her not to Shelah my sonne. So he lay with her no more.

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1 Samuel 24:17, 1 Samuel 24:17, 1 Peter 4:2, 1 Peter 4:3, John 8:9

27Now, when the time was come that she should be deliuered, beholde, there were twinnes in her wombe.

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Genesis 25:24, Genesis 25:24

28And when she was in trauell, the one put out his hand: and the midwife tooke and bound a red threde about his hand, saying, This is come out first.

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29But when he plucked his hand backe againe, loe, his brother came out, and the midwife said, How hast thou broken the breach vpon thee? and his name was called Pharez.

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Matthew 1:3, Genesis 46:12, Numbers 26:20, 1 Chronicles 2:4, Matthew 1:3

30And afterward came out his brother that had the red threde about his hande, and his name was called Zarah.

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1 Chronicles 9:6, 1 Chronicles 9:6, 1 Chronicles 2:4, Matthew 1:3, 1 Chronicles 2:4