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Genesis 38:1 31 Genesis 39:5
38 she rose, and went and put her vaile from her

1 And at that time Iudah went downe from his and put on her widowes raiment. 20 Afterwarde
brethren, and turned in to a man called Hirah an Iudah sent a kid of the goates by the hande of
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Adullamite. And Iudah sawe there the daughter his neighbour the Adullamite, for to receiue his
of a man called Suah a Canaanite: and he tooke pledge from the womans hand: but he found her
her to wife, and went in vnto her. 3 So she not. 21 Then asked he the men of that place,
conceiued and bare a sonne, and he called his saying, Where is ye whore, that sate in Enaim
name Er. And she conceiued againe, and bare a by the way side? And they answered, There was
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sonne, and she called his name Onan. Moreouer no whore here. 22 He came therefore to Iudah
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she bare yet a sonne, whome she called Shelah: againe, and said, I can not finde her, and also the
and Iudah was at Chezib when she bare him. men of the place said, There was no whore there.
6 Then Iudah tooke a wife to Er his first borne 23 Then Iudah said, Let her take it to her, lest
sonne whose name was Tamar. 7 Now Er the we be shamed: beholde, I sent this kid, and thou
first borne of Iudah was wicked in the sight of hast not found her. 24 Now after three moneths,
the Lord: therefore the Lord slewe him. 8 Then one tolde Iudah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in
Iudah said to Onan, Goe in vnto thy brothers law hath played the whore, and lo, with playing
wife, and do the office of a kinsman vnto her, the whore, she is great with childe. Then Iudah
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and raise vp seede vnto thy brother. And Onan
knewe that the seede should not be his: therefore saide, Bring ye her foorth and let her be burnt.
when he went in vnto his brothers wife, he spilled 25 When she was brought foorth, she sent to her
it on the grounde, least he should giue seede father in law, saying, By the man, vnto whom
vnto his brother. 10 And it was wicked in the these things pertaine, am I with childe: and saide
eyes of the Lord, which he did: wherefore he also, Looke, I pray thee, whose these are, the
slewe him also. 11 Then said Iudah to Tamar seale, and the cloke, and the staffe. 26 Then Iudah
his daughter in lawe, Remaine a widowe in thy knewe them, and said, She is more righteous then
fathers house, till Shelah my sonne growe vp I: for she hath done it because I gaue her not to
(for he thought thus, Least he die as well as Shelah my sonne. So he lay with her no more.
his brethren.) So Tamar went and dwelt in her 27 Now, when the time was come that she should
fathers house. 12 And in processe of time also the be deliuered, beholde, there were twinnes in her
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daughter of Shuah Iudahs wife dyed. Then Iudah, wombe. And when she was in trauell, the one
put out his hand: and the midwife tooke and
whenhehadleft mourning, wentvpto hissheepe bound a red threde about his hand, saying, This
sherers to Timnah, he, and his neighbour Hirah is come out first. 29 But when he plucked his hand
the Adullamite. 13 And it was tolde Tamar, saying, backe againe, loe, his brother came out, and the
beholde, thy father in lawe goeth vp to Timnah, midwife said, How hast thou broken the breach
to shere his sheepe. 14 Then she put her widowes vpon thee? and his name was called Pharez.
garments off from her, and couered her with a 30 And afterward came out his brother that had
vaile, and wrapped her selfe, and sate downe in the red threde about his hande, and his name was
Pethah-enaim, which is by the way to Timnah, called Zarah.
because she sawe that Shelah was growen, and
she was not giuen vnto him to wife. 15 When 39
Iudah sawe her, he iudged her an whore: for she 1 Now Ioseph was brought downe into Egypt:
had couered her face. 16 And he turned to the way and Potiphar an Eunuche of Pharaohs (and his
towardes her, and saide, Come, I pray thee, let me chiefe stewarde an Egyptian) bought him at the
lie with thee. (for he knewe not that she was his hande of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him
daughter in lawe) And she answered, What wilt thither. 2 And the Lord was with Ioseph, and he
thou giue me for to lie with me? 17 Then said he, I was a man that prospered and was in the house
will sende thee a kid of the goates from the flocke. of his master the Egyptian. And his master sawe
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and she said, Well, if thou wilt giue me a pledge, that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord
till thou sende it. 18 Then he saide, What is the made all that hee did to prosper in his hande.
pledge that I shall giue thee? And she answered, 4 So Ioseph founde fauour in his sight, and serued
Thy signet, and thy cloke, and thy staffe that is him: and he made him ruler of his house, and
in thine hande. So he gaue it her, and lay by put all that he had in his hand. 5 And from
her, and she was with childe by him. 19 Then that time that he had made him ruler ouer his