Onan ilain for fin. GENESIS XXX VIII. ludasincefl. 137 wife, dyed -: and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his (heepe fhearcrs, hee, and Hirah his friend the Adullamite,toTimnath. 13 And it was told unto Thamar, faying : be- told thy father-in-law, is góing up to Tim - 14 oath , to fheare his fheepe. And thee 'put- away the garments ofher widowhood from upon her ; and covered her with a veil, and wrapped her felfe;and fate in the opening of Enaim,which is by the way to Timnath: for the faw, that Selah was growne- great ; and (hee, was not given unto him , to wife. 15 And Judah faw her ; and thought her, to hi an harlot : becaufe the had coveredher face 16 And he turned- afeleunto her, by the way ; and fayd, Grant I ptay thee, that Imay come in unto thee; for he knew not,that the was his daughter -in -law : and the laid, what wilt thou give me, that thou mayft come-in 17 unto met And he faid;I will fend a kid ofthe goates,from the flocke : and the laid;ifthou 18 wilt give a pledge, till thou fend it. And he faid;what is the pledge,that I Thal give theee and the faid;thy fignet,and thy bracelet;and thy ftaffe, that is in thy hand : and hee gave them unto her, andwent in unto her, and (he 19 conceived by him. And the arofe and went - awa. ; & put -away her veil,from upon her: and put -on the garments of her widow- 20 hood. AndJudah lent the kid of thegoates, by the hand of his friend the Adullamite; to receive the pledge, from the womans hand : 21 but he found her not. And he asked the men ofher place,faying;where is the whore, (he that was in Enaim , by the way r And they 22 laid, there wasno whore,in this'place.)And he returned to Jadah : and laid, I have not found her : and alto the men of the place 23 faid,there wasno whore in this(pface. )And Judah faid,let her take it to her ; left we be- cornea contempt:Behold,I fern this kid;and 24 thou haft not found her. And it was, about a three months after; that it was told unto Ju- dah faying, Thamar thy daughter -in -law hath committed fornication ; & alfo,behold fke iswith childe,by fornication: and Jadah 25 faid ;bring her forth, and let her be burnt.She was brought forth ; and (he fent unto her fa- ther- in- law,faying; by the man wholethele are,am I with childe : and fhe laid, acknow- ledge I pray thee;whofe are thefe,the fignef, 26 and the bracelet, and the ftaffe r And Judah acknowledged ; and laid,fhe iamare juft then I ; for becaufe that I gave her nor, to Selah my Sonne: and he did notagaine,know her 27 any more. And it was, in the time ofher child-birth : that behold,twinnes were in her ' wombe. And it was in herchild birth, that 28 the -one gave -out the hand : and the midwife woke and bound upon his hand a skarlet threed, , laying. This, is come outfirft. And 29 it was,as he turned backe his hand ; that be- hold ; his brother came out ; and thee Paid, How haft thou broken forth, upon thee the breach: and hecalled his name,Pharez And afterward, came-out his brother;that had rn his hand, the skarlet-threed : and he called his name, Zarah. 3© tilrtnotatiottt. IN. that time] in the time beforefpoken of, when Jakob returned out of Mclopotamia into the laud ofCanaan,and long before the felling of Io- feph into Egypt;did there things begin about Iu- dah. Who likewife niaried when hee was very Yong, as did alfo his children , otherwifethe Chronicle will not agree.For lofph was born fixe yeeres before Iakob left Laban and came into Ca- naan, Gen.3o.25. and31.41. andlofrph wasfe- venteene yeers old,when he was fold into Egypt; Gen.37.2.2 5. and thirtie yeere old was he, when hee interpreted Pharaohs dreame, Geu.41.46. and nine yeers after,when there had been 7.yeers pienty,and two yeeres famine,did Iakob with his family goedowne intoEgypt Gen.4t.5i,54and 45 b, r 1. and at their going -Jowne thither,Pha- rez the Con of Iudas (whole birth is fet downe in the end of his chapter,) had two formes, Ezron, and Hamu1, Gen.46.8,i2. Seeing then from the felling of lofeph, unto Ifraels going into Egypt, therecannot be above three and twenty yeeres; how Is it poffible that Iudas fhould take a wife, and have by her three foes one after another, , d Selah the yongcft of the three bee mariageable, when Iudas begat Pharéz of Thamar,cren.3 8.1 4. 24. and Pharez begrowne up, niaried, and have two Ionises, all within fo (hurt a fpáce? The time therefore here Cpoken o(,feemeth to bee bone af- ter Iakobr comming to Sechem, Gen. 33. 18. be- fore that hi,torie of .;en.34. though Mo- fes,for fpeciallcaul,relateth it in this place. lialah]or Iada as the Greek alwaies nameth him: Mat. t .2. a man an Adulamite] that is an hea- then man dwelling in Adiliam (or Ode/lam as the Greeke calleth it,) a citie in the landof Canaan, which afterward was given fora poffetlion to the Sonnes of this Iudas, IoCi5.t.35. The word man here (as in the verle following)may be omit- ted for the Cede : fee Gen., 3.S.or it may be read a man ofAdullam, as where oneEvangelift wri- teth,The men Niniviter, Mat. t2.41. another wri- teth,The men ofNiniveb, Luk s Verf..z.Canaanite] the Chaldee tranflateth it a merchant , and fo the word is fometirrie uCed in Scripture, Prov.3 1.24. Iob 41.6. but the Greeke N 3.,. here I r 1 2
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