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

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

2Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

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

3She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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

9Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

17He said, "I will send you a kid of the goats from the flock." She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?"

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

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.

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

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

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

20Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he did not find her.

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

21Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here."

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22He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"

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23Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this kid, and you haven't found her."

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

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."

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

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."

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

26Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I did not give her to Shelah, my son." He knew her again 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

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

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Genesis 25:24, Genesis 25:24

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."

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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.

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

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

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