30And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.
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And of the sons of Zerah; Jeuel, and their brethren, six hundred and ninety.
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.
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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