At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. 1Sa 22:12Ki 4:8Gen 19:2-3Jos 15:35Mic 1:15Pro 13:202Sa 23:13Jdg 4:18 There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her. 1Ch 2:3Gen 24:32Co 6:142Sa 11:2Gen 3:6Gen 34:2Gen 46:12Gen 6:2 She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er. Gen 46:12Num 26:19 She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan. Gen 46:12Num 26:19 She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah. He was at Chezib when she bore him. Num 26:201Ch 4:21Gen 38:11Gen 38:26Gen 46:12 Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. Gen 21:21Gen 24:3Mat 1:3 Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the LORD’s sight. So the LORD killed him. 1Ch 2:3Gen 46:12Num 26:19Gen 13:13Gen 19:13Psa 55:232Ch 33:6Gen 6:8 Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.” Deu 25:5-10Mat 22:23-27Rut 1:11Rut 4:5-11Lev 18:16Num 36:8-9 Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother. Deu 25:6Jas 3:16Jas 4:5Tit 3:3Jas 3:14Job 5:2Pro 27:4Rut 4:10 The thing which he did was evil in the LORD’s sight, and he killed him also. Gen 46:12Num 11:11Ch 21:7Num 26:19Pro 14:322Sa 11:27Hag 1:13Jer 44:4 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;” for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house. Lev 22:13Rut 1:11-13
After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite. Jos 15:102Sa 13:39Gen 24:67Jdg 14:11Sa 25:361Sa 25:4-82Sa 13:23-29Gen 31:19 Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.” She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife. Gen 38:26Gen 24:65Gen 38:11-13Jer 3:2Pro 7:12Ezk 16:25 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. He turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law. 1Ti 6:102Sa 13:11Mat 26:15Deu 23:18Ezk 16:33
She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”
He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” Ezk 16:33Gen 38:20Gen 38:24-25Luk 16:8Pro 20:16
She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”
He said, “What pledge will I give you?” Gen 38:25-26Hos 4:11Jer 22:24Luk 15:22
She said, “Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.”
He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him. She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood. Gen 38:142Sa 14:22Sa 14:5 Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her. 2Sa 13:3Gen 20:9Jdg 14:20Lev 19:17Luk 23:12 Then he asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?”
They said, “There has been no prostitute here.”
He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’” Judah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her.” 2Co 4:22Sa 12:9Eph 5:12Pro 6:33Rev 16:15Rom 6:21
About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Lev 21:9Ezk 23:19Ezk 23:44Ezk 23:5Hos 2:5Jdg 19:22Sa 12:52Sa 12:7
Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.” When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “I am with child by the man who owns these.” She also said, “Please discern whose these are—the signet, and the cords, and the staff.” Gen 37:32Gen 38:18Psa 50:211Co 4:5Jer 2:26Rev 20:12Rom 2:16
Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” 1Sa 24:171Pe 4:2-3Jhn 8:9Tit 2:11-122Sa 16:222Sa 20:32Sa 24:17Ezk 16:52
He knew her again no more. In the time of her travail, behold, twins were in her womb. Gen 25:24 When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This came out first.” As he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?” Therefore his name was called Perez. 1 1Ch 2:4Gen 46:12Mat 1:3Num 26:20Neh 11:6Rut 4:121Ch 9:4Luk 3:33 Afterward his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah. 2 1Ch 9:61Ch 2:4Mat 1:3