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Genesis 38
Genesis 1, 2,
3, 4,
5, 6,
7, 8,
9,10,11,12,13,
14, 15,
16, 17,
18, 19,
20,
21, 22, 23,
24, 25,
26, 27,
28, 29,
30, 31,
32, 33,
34, 35,
36, 37,
38, 39,
40, 41,
42,
43, 44,
45, 46,
47, 48,
49, 50
Genesis 38:1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his
brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
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Certain = a man, an Adullamite = Hebrew. 'ish.
2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah;
and he took her, and went in unto her.
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Judah had a time were he went down the wrong road, In this was Judah's
sin.
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A warning, and a revelation of the human heart.
Note who these Canaanites were!
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Canaanites OT:3669 a Kenaanite or inhabitant of
Kenaan; by implication, a pedlar (the Canaanites
standing for their neighbors the Ishmaelites,
who conducted mercantile caravans): merchant,
trafficker.
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Genesis 24:2 And Abraham said unto his eldest
servant of his house, that ruled over all that
he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my
thigh:
3 And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the
God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that
thou shalt not take a wife unto my son
of the daughters of the Canaanites,
among whom I dwell:
4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my
kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
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Exodus 34:10 And he said, Behold, I make a
covenant: before all thy people I will do
marvels, such as have not been done in all the
earth, nor in any nation: and all the people
among which thou art shall see the work of the
Lord: for it is a terrible thing that I will do
with thee.
11 Observe thou that which I command thee this
day: behold, I drive out before thee the
Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and
the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a
covenant with the inhabitants of the land
whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in
the midst of thee:
13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break
their images, and cut down their groves:
14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the
Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
15 Lest thou make a covenant with the
inhabitants of the land, and they go a
whoring after their gods, and do
sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee,
and thou eat of his sacrifice;
16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy
sons, and their daughters go a whoring after
their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after
their gods.
17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou
keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened
bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the
month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest
out from Egypt.
3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er.
4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.
5 And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and
he was at Chezib, when she bare him.
6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.
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Tamar = seed line of which Christ would be born
7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord
slew him.
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God's protected the seed line
8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and
raise up seed to thy brother.
9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he
went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he
should give seed to his brother.
10 And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.
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God's protected the seed line
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Displeased = Hebrew was evil in the eyes of God
11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's
house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also,
as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was
comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend
Hirah the Adullamite.
13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath
to shear his sheep.
14 And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail,
and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath;
for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered
her face.
16 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come
in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said,
What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?
17 And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou
give me a pledge, till thou send it?
18 And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy
bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in
unto her, and she conceived by him.
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Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff
that is in thine hand.
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God's using Timnath
19 And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the
garments of her widowhood.
20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive
his pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not.
21 Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was
openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.
22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of
the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.
23 And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent
this kid, and thou hast not found her.
24 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.
25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the
man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee,
whose
are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.
26 And 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.
27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in
her womb.
28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and
the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out
first.
29 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.
30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his
hand: and his name was called Zarah.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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