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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,
 as the waters cover the sea.

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GE-38:1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down


  • from his

  • brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name
  • [was] Hirah.

  • GE-38:2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite,
  • whose name

  • [was] Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.

  • GE-38:3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his
  • name Er.

  • GE-38:4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called
  • his name

  • Onan.

  • GE-38:5 And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called
  • his name

  • Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.

  • GE-38:6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name
  • [was] Tamar.

  • GE-38:7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of
  • the LORD; and

  • the LORD slew him.

  • GE-38:8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife,
  • and marry

  • her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

  • GE-38:9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it
  • came to pass,

  • when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled [it] on
  • the ground,

  • lest that he should give seed to his brother.

  • GE-38:10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD:
  • wherefore he slew

  • him also.

  • GE-38:11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a
  • widow at thy

  • father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest
  • peradventure he

  • die also, as his brethren [did]. And Tamar went and dwelt in her
  • father's

  • house.

  • GE-38:12 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.

  • GE-38:13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in
  • law goeth up to

  • Timnath to shear his sheep.

  • GE-38:14 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.

  • GE-38:15 When Judah saw her, he thought her [to be] an harlot;
  • because she

  • had covered her face.

  • GE-38:16 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I
  • pray thee, let

  • me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she [was] his
  • daughter in law.)

  • And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in
  • unto me?

  • GE-38:17 And he said, I will send [thee] a kid from the flock.
  • And she said,

  • Wilt thou give [me] a pledge, till thou send [it]?

  • GE-38:18 And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she
  • said, Thy

  • signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that [is] in thine hand.
  • And he gave

  • [it] her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.

  • GE-38:19 And she arose, and went away, and laid by her veil
  • from her, and put

  • on the garments of her widowhood.

  • GE-38:20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the
  • Adullamite, to

  • receive [his] pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not.

  • GE-38:21 Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where
  • [is] the harlot,

  • that [was] openly by the way side? And they said, There was no
  • harlot in this

  • [place].

  • GE-38:22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her;
  • and also the

  • men of the place said, [that] there was no harlot in this
  • [place].

  • GE-38:23 And Judah said, Let her take [it] to her, lest we be
  • shamed: behold,

  • I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

  • GE-38:24 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.

  • GE-38:25 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.

  • GE-38:26 And Judah acknowledged [them], and said, She hath been
  • more

  • righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son.
  • And he knew

  • her again no more.

  • GE-38:27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that,
  • behold, twins

  • [were] in her womb.

  • GE-38:28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that [the
  • one] put out

  • [his] hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a
  • scarlet thread,

  • saying, This came out first.

  • GE-38:29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that,
  • behold, his

  • brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth?
  • [this] breach [be]

  • upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.

  • GE-38:30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the
  • scarlet thread upon

  • his hand: and his name was called Zarah.





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