26And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
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And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, …
And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. …
And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-30)Here is, I. Judah’s rigour against Tamar, when he heard she was an adulteress. She was, in the eye of the law, Shelah’s wife, and therefore her being with child by another was looked upon as an injury and reproach to Judah’s family: Bring her forth therefore , says Judah, the master of the family, and let her be burnt ; not burnt to death, but burnt in the cheek or forehead, stigmatized for a harl…
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