Quotes about Family
So she conceived and gave birth to a son, and Judah named him Er.
- Genesis 38:3
Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Onan.
- Genesis 38:4
Then she gave birth to another son and named him Shelah; it was at Chezib that she gave birth to him.
- Genesis 38:5
Now Judah acquired a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
- Genesis 38:6
Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
- Genesis 38:8
But Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brother’s wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.
- Genesis 38:9
Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.
- Genesis 38:11
When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
- Genesis 38:13
Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.
- Genesis 38:16
About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
- Genesis 38:24
As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”
- Genesis 38:25
Judah recognized the items and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.
- Genesis 38:26