29And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.
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And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;
And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
Commentary
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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