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Genesis 38:11

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38:11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until Shelah my son grows up.” For he thought, 1  “I don’t want him to die like his brothers.” 2  So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

Genesis 38:26

Context
38:26 Judah recognized them and said, “She is more upright 3  than I am, because I wouldn’t give her to Shelah my son.” He did not have sexual relations with her 4  again.

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[38:11]  1 tn Heb “said.”

[38:11]  2 tn Heb “Otherwise he will die, also he, like his brothers.”

[38:26]  3 tn Traditionally “more righteous”; cf. NCV, NRSV, NLT “more in the right.”

[38:26]  4 tn Heb “and he did not add again to know her.” Here “know” is a euphemism for sexual intercourse.



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