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CHAPTER 41:
Judah’s Incest With
Tamar; His Repentance
And Forgiveness
(41:1-28; Cf. Gen. 38)
2165 A.M.
1 And in the forty-fifth jubilee,
in the second week, (and) in
the second year, Judah took
Cf. Test. for his first-born Er, a wife
Judah 10
(“from Meso- from the daughters of Aram,
potamia”). named Tamar. 2 But he
. 34:11
(note). hated, and did not lie with her,
because his mother was of the
daughters of Canaan, and he
wished to take him a wife of
the kinsfolk of his mother, but
Judah, his father, would not
permit him. 3 And this Er,
the first-born of Judah, was
wicked, and Yahuah slew him.
4 And Judah said unto Onan,
his brother: “Go in unto thy
brother’s wife and perform
a husband’s
Cf. Gn. 38:8; the duty of
Dt. 25:5
brother unto her, and raise
up seed unto thy brother.”
5 And Onan knew that the
seed would not be his, (but)
his brother’s only, and he went
into the house of his brother’s
wife, and spilt the seed on the
ground, and he was wicked in
the eyes of Yahuah, and He
slew him. 6 And Judah said
unto Tamar, his daughter-inlaw: “Remain in thy father’s
house as a widow till Shelah
my son be grown up, and
I shall give thee to him to
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wife.” 7 And he grew up; but i. e.
Bathshua; Cf.
Bêdsû’êl, the wife of Judah, 34:20
did not permit her son Shelah
to marry. And Bêdsû’êl, the
wife of Judah, died in the fifth 2168 A.M.
year of this week. 8 And in
the sixth year Judah went up 2169 A.M.
to shear his sheep at Timnah.
And they told Tamar: “Behold
thy father-in-law goeth up to
Timnah to shear his sheep.”
9 And she put off her widow’s
clothes, and put on a veil, and
adorned herself, and sat in
the gate adjoining the way to
Timnah. 10 And as Judah was
going along he found her, and
thought her to be an harlot,
and he said unto her: “Let me
come in unto thee”; and she
said unto him: “Come in,”
and he went in. 11 And she
said unto him: “Give me my
hire”; and he said unto her: “I
have nothing in my hand save
my ring that is on my finger,
and my necklace, and my staff
which is in my hand.” 12 And
she said unto him: “Give them
to me until thou dost send me
my hire”; and he said unto
her: “I will send unto thee a
kid of the goats”; and he gave
them to her, (and he went in
unto her,) and she conceived
by him. 13 And Judah went
unto his sheep, and she went
to her father’s house. 14 And
Judah sent a kid of the goats
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