Genesis 29:35

29:35 She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” That is why she named him Judah. ¹  Then she stopped having children.

Genesis 44:18-34

44:18 Then Judah approached him and said, “My lord, please allow your servant to speak a word with you. ²  Please do not get angry with your servant, ³  for you are just like Pharaoh. ⁴  44:19 My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’ 44:20 We said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. ⁵  The boy’s ⁶  brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, ⁷  and his father loves him.’

44:21 “Then you told your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so I can see ⁸  him.’ ⁹  44:22 We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father ¹⁰  will die.’ ¹¹  44:23 But you said to your servants, ‘If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.’ 44:24 When we returned to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

44:25 “Then our father said, ‘Go back and buy us a little food.’ 44:26 But we replied, ‘We cannot go down there. ¹²  If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go, ¹³  for we won’t be permitted to see the man’s face if our youngest brother is not with us.’

44:27 “Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife gave me two sons. ¹⁴  44:28 The first disappeared ¹⁵  and I said, “He has surely been torn to pieces.” I have not seen him since. 44:29 If you take ¹⁶  this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair ¹⁷  in tragedy ¹⁸  to the grave.’ ¹⁹ 

44:30 “So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us – his very life is bound up in his son’s life. ²⁰  44:31 When he sees the boy is not with us, ²¹  he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave. 44:32 Indeed, ²²  your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’

44:33 “So now, please let your servant remain as my lord’s slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers. 44:34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see ²³  my father’s pain.” ²⁴ 

Genesis 46:12

46:12 The sons of Judah:

Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah

(but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan).

The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

Deuteronomy 33:7

Blessing on Judah

33:7 And this is the blessing ²⁵  to Judah. He said,

Listen, O Lord, to Judah’s voice,

and bring him to his people.

May his power be great,

and may you help him against his foes.

Deuteronomy 33:1

Introduction to the Blessing of Moses

33:1 This is the blessing Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.

Deuteronomy 5:2

5:2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

Psalms 76:1

Psalm 76 ²⁶ 

For the music director; to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a psalm of Asaph, a song.

76:1 God has revealed himself in Judah; ²⁷ 

in Israel his reputation ²⁸  is great.

Hebrews 7:14

7:14 For it is clear that our Lord is descended from Judah, yet Moses said nothing about priests in connection with that tribe.

[29:35]  ¹ sn The name Judah (יְהוּדָה, yÿhudah) means “he will be praised” and reflects the sentiment Leah expresses in the statement recorded earlier in the verse. For further discussion see W. F. Albright, “The Names ‘Israel’ and ‘Judah’ with an Excursus on the Etymology of Todah and Torah,” JBL 46 (1927): 151-85; and A. R. Millard, “The Meaning of the Name Judah,” ZAW 86 (1974): 216-18.

[44:18]  ² tn Heb “Please my lord, let your servant speak a word into the ears of my lord.”

[44:18]  ³ tn Heb “and let not your anger burn against your servant.”

[44:18]  ⁴ sn You are just like Pharaoh. Judah’s speech begins with the fear and trembling of one who stands condemned. Joseph has as much power as Pharaoh, either to condemn or to pardon. Judah will make his appeal, wording his speech in such a way as to appeal to Joseph’s compassion for the father, whom he mentions no less than fourteen times in the speech.

[44:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “and a small boy of old age,” meaning that he was born when his father was elderly.

[44:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “his”; the referent (the boy just mentioned) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[44:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “he, only he, to his mother is left.”

[44:21]  ⁸ tn The cohortative after the imperative indicates purpose here.

[44:21]  ⁹ tn Heb “that I may set my eyes upon him.”

[44:22]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the boy’s father, i.e., Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[44:22]  ¹¹ tn The last two verbs are perfect tenses with vav consecutive. The first is subordinated to the second as a conditional clause.

[44:26]  ¹² tn The direct object is not specified in the Hebrew text, but is implied; “there” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[44:26]  ¹³ tn Heb “go down.”

[44:27]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “that two sons my wife bore to me.”

[44:28]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “went forth from me.”

[44:29]  ¹⁶ tn The construction uses a perfect verbal form with the vav consecutive to introduce the conditional clause and then another perfect verbal form with a vav consecutive to complete the sentence: “if you take…then you will bring down.”

[44:29]  ¹⁷ sn The expression bring down my gray hair is figurative, using a part for the whole – they would put Jacob in the grave. But the gray head signifies a long life of worry and trouble. See Gen 42:38.

[44:29]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “evil/calamity.” The term is different than the one used in the otherwise identical statement recorded in v. 31 (see also 42:38).

[44:29]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “to Sheol,” the dwelling place of the dead.

[44:30]  ²⁰ tn Heb “his life is bound up in his life.”

[44:31]  ²¹ tn Heb “when he sees that there is no boy.”

[44:32]  ²² tn Or “for.”

[44:34]  ²³ tn The Hebrew text has “lest I see,” which expresses a negative purpose – “I cannot go up lest I see.”

[44:34]  ²⁴ tn Heb “the calamity which would find my father.”

[33:7]  ²⁵ tn The words “the blessing” are supplied in the translation for clarity and stylistic reasons.

[76:1]  ²⁶ sn Psalm 76. The psalmist depicts God as a mighty warrior who destroys Israel’s enemies.

[76:1]  ²⁷ tn Or “God is known in Judah.”

[76:1]  ²⁸ tn Heb “name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation.