Genesis 38:24

Now after about three months, Judah was told, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has been acting like a prostitute and is pregnant.” Judah said, “Bring her forth and let her be burnt.”

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

23Judah said, “Let her keep the pledge, otherwise we will be put to shame. I have sent this goat, and you have not found her.”

25But when she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “By the man to whom these things belong, I am with child.” She also said, “Look at them and see if you know whose these are, the seal-ring and the chain and the staff.”

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Cross References

Genesis 20:3But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night and said to him, “You will die, because of the woman you have taken, for she is married.

Genesis 20:9Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked him, “What have you done to us? What harm have I done to you to make you bring this great sin on me and my kingdom? You have done to me something that ought not to be done.”

Matthew Henry on Genesis 38:13-24

12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. 13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep. 14 And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife. 15 When… Read the whole commentary →

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