Genesis 38:2 - Easy To Read Version

² Judah met a Canaanite girl there and married her. The girl’s father was named Shua.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² There Judah saw and met a daughter of Shuah, a Canaanite; he took her as wife and lived with her.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; and he took her, and went in unto her.

Common English Bible

² There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite whose name was Shua, and he married her. After he slept with her,

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And he saw there the daughter of a man called Shua, of Canaan. And taking her as a wife, he entered to her.

Genesis 38:2 Cross References

Genesis 24:3

Now I want you to make a promise to me. Promise to me before the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son to marry a girl from Canaan. We live among those people but don’t let him marry a Canaanite girl.

Genesis 28:1

Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. Then Isaac gave him a command. Isaac said, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.

Genesis 3:6

The woman saw the tree was beautiful. She saw the fruit was good to eat. And it was exciting that the tree would make her wise. So the woman took fruit from the tree and ate it. Her husband was there with her, so she gave some of the fruit to him and he ate it.

Genesis 34:2

Hamor was the king of that land. His son Shechem saw Dinah. Shechem kidnapped her and raped her.

Genesis 46:12

Judah’s sons were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah. (Er and Onan died while still in Canaan.) Perez’s sons were Hezron and Hamul.

2 Samuel 11:2

In the evening, he got up from his bed. He walked around on the roof of the king’s house. While David was on the roof, he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful.

1 Chronicles 2:3

Judah’s sons were Er, Onan, and Shelah. Bathshua [15] was their mother. Bathshua was a woman from Canaan. The Lord saw that Judah’s first son, Er, was evil. That is why the Lord killed Er.

2 Corinthians 6:14

You are not the same as those people who don’t believe. So don’t join yourselves to them. Good and bad don’t belong together. Light and darkness cannot have fellowship (sharing).

Judges 14:2

When he got back home he said to his father and mother, “I saw a Philistine woman in Timnah. I want you to get her for me. I want to marry her.”

Judges 16:1

One day Samson went to the city of Gaza. He saw a prostitute there. He went in to stay the night with her.