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Tamar (Judah narrative)

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Person in Genesis 38:24–30: Tamar (Judah narrative).

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1CH 2:3–4, engwebp
³The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah, which three were born to him of Shua’s daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the LORD’s sight; and he killed him.
⁴Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
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GEN 38:1–23, engwebp
¹At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
²There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named 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. He was at Chezib when she bore him.
⁶Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
⁷Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the LORD’s sight. So the LORD 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 offspring for your brother.”
⁹Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.
¹⁰The thing which he did was evil in the LORD’s sight, 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 sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
¹³Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
¹⁴She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on 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?”
¹⁷He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”
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.
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.
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.”
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.’”
²³Judah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her.”
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GEN 38:24–30, engwebp
²⁴About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”
²⁵When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “I am with child by the man who owns these.” She also said, “Please discern whose these are—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.
²⁷In the time of her travail, behold, twins were in her womb.
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.”
²⁹As he drew back his hand, 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, who had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.
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MAT 1:1–17, engwebp
¹The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
²Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.
³Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.
⁴Ram became the father of Amminadab. Amminadab became the father of Nahshon. Nahshon became the father of Salmon.
⁵Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed by Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse.
⁶Jesse became the father of King David. David the king became the father of Solomon by her who had been Uriah’s wife.
⁷Solomon became the father of Rehoboam. Rehoboam became the father of Abijah. Abijah became the father of Asa.
⁸Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat became the father of Joram. Joram became the father of Uzziah.
⁹Uzziah became the father of Jotham. Jotham became the father of Ahaz. Ahaz became the father of Hezekiah.
¹⁰Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh. Manasseh became the father of Amon. Amon became the father of Josiah.
¹¹Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.
¹²After the exile to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel.
¹³Zerubbabel became the father of Abiud. Abiud became the father of Eliakim. Eliakim became the father of Azor.
¹⁴Azor became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Achim. Achim became the father of Eliud.
¹⁵Eliud became the father of Eleazar. Eleazar became the father of Matthan. Matthan became the father of Jacob.
¹⁶Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
¹⁷So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the exile to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon to the Christ, fourteen generations.
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RUT 4:9–12, engwebp
⁹Boaz said to the elders and to all the people, “You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.
¹⁰Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”
¹¹All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.
¹²Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring which the LORD will give you by this young woman.”
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Tamar (Judah narrative) — Mother of — Perez

Evidence: 1 Chronicles 2:3–4, Genesis 38:24–30, Matthew 1:1–17, Ruth 4:9–12
Tamar (Judah narrative) — Mother of — Zerah (son of Judah)

Evidence: 1 Chronicles 2:3–4, Genesis 38:24–30, Matthew 1:1–17
Er — Spouse of — Tamar (Judah narrative)

Evidence: Genesis 38:1–23
Appears in the narrated event (2) — Judah’s household, and Tamar sitting by the way, Tamar and the birth of twins

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Took part in (1) — The LORD kills Er, Judah’s firstborn, and Tamar bears Perez and Zerah

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Genesis 38:11 Open that verse

Then 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.

Genesis 38:13 Open that verse

Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

Genesis 38:24 Open that verse

About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”

Ruth 4:12 Open that verse

Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring which the LORD will give you by this young woman.”

1 Chronicles 2:4 Open that verse

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

Matthew 1:3 Open that verse

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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Entry: Tamar (Judah narrative) (person-tamar-judah)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/person/tamar-judah
Current wording: Person in Genesis 38:24–30: Tamar (Judah narrative).
Cited evidence: 1CH 2:3–4, engwebp / GEN 38:1–23, engwebp / GEN 38:24–30, engwebp / MAT 1:1–17, engwebp / RUT 4:9–12, engwebp
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