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Judah and Tamar, school of Rembrandt. In the Book of Genesis, Tamar (/ ˈ t eɪ m ər /; Hebrew: תָּמָר, Modern: Tamar pronounced, Tiberian: Tāmār pronounced [tʰɔːˈmɔːr], date palm) was the daughter-in-law of Judah (twice), as well as the mother of two of his children: the twins Perez and Zerah.
A detailed account of a levirate-type marriage in the Hebrew Bible is the unusual union of Judah and his daughter-in-law Tamar found in Genesis 38:8. The case is not strictly a case of yibbum as Judah was Tamar's father-in-law, and also the case pre-dates the biblical obligation. It may be a reflection of contemporaneous Middle East practices.
In the Book of Genesis, Tamar is Judah's daughter-in-law. She was married to Judah's son Er , but Er died, leaving Tamar childless. Under levirate law, Judah's next son, Onan , was told to have sex with Tamar and give her a child, but when Onan slept with her, he "spilled his seed on the ground" rather than give her a child that would belong to ...
Genesis chapter 38 Judah and his wife have three children, Er, Onan, and Shelah. Er marries Tamar , but God kills him because he was wicked in His sight ( Gen. 38:7). Tamar becomes Onan's wife in accordance with custom , but he too is killed after he refuses to father children for his older brother's childless widow, and spills his seed instead ...
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In the Book of Genesis, Tamar deceives her father-in-law Judah into having sexual intercourse with her by pretending to be a prostitute. When Judah discovers that Tamar is pregnant he prepares to have her killed, but recants and confesses when he finds out that he is the father (Genesis 38:11–26). [72]
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In Genesis 38:13, a place called Timnah (Timnath) is mentioned in the context of the story of the Hebrew patriarch Judah and Tamar.Some think that Judah may have gone to this Timnah (Tibna) to shear his sheep, when he met his daughter-in-law in passing, [3] while others suggest that this would have happened in the Timnath now known in Arabic as Khirbet et-Tibbaneh.