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highlighted Genesis 38:17-18 NLT
“I’ll send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah promised. “But what will you give me to guarantee that you will send the goat?” she asked. “What kind of guarantee do you want?” he replied. She answered, “Leave me your identification seal and its cord and the walking stick you are carrying.” So Judah gave them to her. Then he had intercourse with her, and she became pregnant.
Jan 22
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 38:15-16 NLT
Judah noticed her and thought she was a prostitute, since she had covered her face. So he stopped and propositioned her. “Let me have sex with you,” he said, not realizing that she was his own daughter-in-law. “How much will you pay to have sex with me?” Tamar asked.
Jan 22
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 38:14 NLT
Tamar was aware that Shelah had grown up, but no arrangements had been made for her to come and marry him. So she changed out of her widow’s clothing and covered herself with a veil to disguise herself. Then she sat beside the road at the entrance to the village of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah.
Jan 22
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 38:11 NLT
Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Go back to your parents’ home and remain a widow until my son Shelah is old enough to marry you.” (But Judah didn’t really intend to do this because he was afraid Shelah would also die, like his two brothers.) So Tamar went back to live in her father’s home.
Jan 22
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 38:10 NLT
But the LORD considered it evil for Onan to deny a child to his dead brother. So the LORD took Onan’s life, too.
Jan 22
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highlighted Genesis 38:9 NLT
But Onan was not willing to have a child who would not be his own heir. So whenever he had intercourse with his brother’s wife, he spilled the semen on the ground. This prevented her from having a child who would belong to his brother.
Jan 22
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 38:8 NLT
Then Judah said to Er’s brother Onan, “Go and marry Tamar, as our law requires of the brother of a man who has died. You must produce an heir for your brother.”
Jan 22
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 38:7 NLT
But Er was a wicked man in the LORD’s sight, so the LORD took his life.
Jan 22
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 38:6 NLT
In the course of time, Judah arranged for his firstborn son, Er, to marry a young woman named Tamar.
Jan 22
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 38:5 NLT
And when she gave birth to a third son, she named him Shelah. At the time of Shelah’s birth, they were living at Kezib.
Jan 22
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 38:4 NLT
Then she became pregnant again and gave birth to another son, and she named him Onan.
Jan 22
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 38:3 NLT
she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, and he named the boy Er.
Jan 22
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 38:2 NLT
There he saw a Canaanite woman, the daughter of Shua, and he married her. When he slept with her,
Jan 22
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 38:1 NLT
About this time, Judah left home and moved to Adullam, where he stayed with a man named Hirah.
Jan 22
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 37:36 NLT
Meanwhile, the Midianite traders arrived in Egypt, where they sold Joseph to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. Potiphar was captain of the palace guard.
Jan 22
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 37:34 NLT
Then Jacob tore his clothes and dressed himself in burlap. He mourned deeply for his son for a long time.
Jan 22
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highlighted Genesis 37:32 NLT
They sent the beautiful robe to their father with this message: “Look at what we found. Doesn’t this robe belong to your son?”
Jan 22
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highlighted Genesis 37:31 NLT
Then the brothers killed a young goat and dipped Joseph’s robe in its blood.
Jan 22
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highlighted Genesis 37:29 NLT
Some time later, Reuben returned to get Joseph out of the cistern. When he discovered that Joseph was missing, he tore his clothes in grief.
Jan 22
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 37:28 NLT
So when the Ishmaelites, who were Midianite traders, came by, Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to them for twenty pieces of silver. And the traders took him to Egypt.
Jan 22