3And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;
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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 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. …
The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron, …
And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-17)Concerning this genealogy of our Saviour, observe, I. The title of it. It is the book (or the account, as the Hebrew word sepher, a book , sometimes signifies) of the generation of Jesus Christ , of his ancestors according to the flesh; or, It is the narrative of his birth. It is Biblos Geneseos — a book of Genesis . The Old Testament begins with the book of the generation of the world, and it is…
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