While she was in labor, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and bound on his hand a crimson thread, saying, “This one came out first.”
Genesis 38:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 But just then he drew back his hand and out came his brother, and she said, “What a breach you have made for yourself!” Therefore he was named Perez. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But he drew back his hand, and behold, his brother was born first. And she said, What a breaking forth you have made for yourself! Therefore his name was called Perez [breaking forth]. [Matt. 1:3.] American Standard Version (1901) And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, Wherefore hast thou made a breach for thyself? therefore his name was called Perez. Common English Bible As soon as he pulled his hand back, his brother came out, and she said, “You’ve burst out on your own.” So he was named Perez. Catholic Public Domain Version But in truth, drawing back his hand, the other came out. And the woman said, "Why is the partition divided for you?" And for this reason, she called his name Perez. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But he drawing back his hand, the other came forth. And the woman said: Why is the partition divided for thee? And therefore called his name Phares. |
While she was in labor, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and bound on his hand a crimson thread, saying, “This one came out first.”
The children of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan), and the children of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.
Uthai son of Ammihud, son of Omri, son of Imri, son of Bani, from the sons of Perez son of Judah.
And in Jerusalem lived some of the Judahites and the Benjaminites. Of the Judahites: Athaiah son of Uzziah son of Zechariah son of Amariah son of Shephatiah son of Mahalalel, of the descendants of Perez;
All the descendants of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred sixty-eight valiant warriors.
The descendants of Judah by their clans were: of Shelah, the clan of the Shelanites; of Perez, the clan of the Perezites; of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites.
and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Aram,
son of Amminadab, son of Admin, son of Arni, son of Hezron, son of Perez, son of Judah,
and, through the children that the Lord will give you by this young woman, may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.”