Genesis 38:26
But when she was led to execution, she sent to her father in law, saying: By the man, to whom these things belong, I am with child. See whose ring, and bracelet, and staff this is.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Cross References
Genesis 4:1And Adam knew Eve his wife: who conceived and brought forth Cain, saying: I have gotten a man through God.
Genesis 38:14And she put off the garments of her widowhood, and took a veil: and changing her dress, sat in the cross way, that leadeth to Thamnas: because Sela was grown up, and she had not been married to him.
1 Samuel 24:18And he said to David: Thou art more just than I: for thou hast done good to me, and I have rewarded thee with evil.
2 Samuel 20:3And when the king was come into his house at Jerusalem, he took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, allowing them provisions: and he went not in unto them, but they were shut up unto the day of their death living in widowhood.
Job 4:5But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: it hath touched thee, and thou art troubled.
Job 34:32If I have erred, teach thou me : if I have spoken iniquity, I will add no more.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 38:25-30
Birth of Phares and Zarah. ( b. c. 1714.) 24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt. 25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff. 26 And Judah acknowledged them, and… Read the whole commentary →