Genesis 38:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² In course of time the wife of Judah, Shua’s daughter, died; when Judah’s time of mourning was over, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² But later Judah's wife, the daughter of Shuah, died; and when Judah was comforted, he went up to his sheepshearers at Timnath with his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And in process of time Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheep-shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

Common English Bible

¹² After a long time, Judah’s wife the daughter of Shua died. Then, after a period of mourning, he and his neighbor Hirah the Adullamite went up to Timnah, to those who were shearing his sheep.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Then, after many days had passed, the daughter of Shua, the wife of Judah, died. And when he accepted consolation after his mourning, he went up to the shearers of his sheep at Timnah, he and Hirah, the herdsman of the Adullamite flock.

Genesis 38:12 Cross References

Joshua 15:10

and the boundary circles west of Baalah to Mount Seir, passes along to the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), and goes down to Beth-shemesh, and passes along by Timnah;

2 Samuel 13:39

And the heart of the king went out, yearning for Absalom, for he was now consoled over the death of Amnon.

Judges 14:1

Once Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw a Philistine woman.

Genesis 24:67

Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

1 Samuel 25:36

Abigail came to Nabal; he was holding a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk, so she told him nothing at all until the morning light.

Joshua 19:43

Elon, Timnah, Ekron,

Joshua 15:57

Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah: ten towns with their villages.

Joshua 15:37

Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal-gad,

Joshua 15:35

Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,

Genesis 38:1

It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and settled near a certain Adullamite whose name was Hirah.

Genesis 31:19

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household gods.