23 Then Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be [a][b]shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

24 ¶ Now after three months, one told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the whore, and lo, with playing the whore, she is great with child. Then Judah said, Bring ye her forth and let her be [c]burnt.

25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man, unto whom these things pertain, am I with child: and said also, Look I pray thee, whose these are, the seal, and the cloak, and the staff.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 38:23 Hebrew, in contempt.
  2. Genesis 38:23 He feareth man more than God.
  3. Genesis 38:24 We see that the Law, which was written in man’s heart, taught them that whoredom should be punished with death: albeit no law, as yet was given.

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