Tamar
Tamar is Judah's daughter-in-law, widowed of Er and Onan; she secures justice and bears Perez and Zerah to Judah in Genesis 38.
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- Occupation
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- First mention
- Genesis 38:6
Scripture references
- Genesis 38:6
Judah took a wife for his first-born Er, and her name was Tamar.
- Genesis 38:11
Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, 'Go home as a widow to your father, until my son Shelah grows up,'
- Genesis 38:14
she changed out of her widow's clothes, wrapped a veil around her to disguise herself, and sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah;
- Genesis 38:25
But as she was being led off, she sent word to her father-in-law, 'It was the owner of these who made me pregnant. Please verify', she said, 'whose seal and cord and staff these are.'
- Genesis 38:26
Judah recognised them and said, 'She was right and I was wrong, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.'
- Genesis 38:27
When the time for her confinement came, there were twins in her womb!