Genesis 38:26 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁶ Then Judah acknowledged them and said, “She is more righteous than I, inasmuch as I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not lie with her again.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ And Judah acknowledged them and said, She has been more righteous and just than I, because I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he did not cohabit with her again.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She is more righteous than I, forasmuch as I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.

Common English Bible

²⁶ Judah recognized them and said, “She’s more righteous than I am, because I didn’t allow her to marry my son Shelah.” Judah never knew her intimately again.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ But he, acknowledging the gifts, said: "She is more just than I am. For I did not deliver her to my son Shelah." However, he knew her no more.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ But he acknowledging the gifts, said: She is juster than I; because I did not give her to Sela; my son. However, he knew her no more.

Genesis 38:26 Cross References

Genesis 37:33

And he recognized it, and said, “It is my son's robe; a wild beast has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces.”

Genesis 38:14

she put off her widow's garments, and put on a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage.

Genesis 4:1

Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.”

2 Samuel 16:22

So they pitched a tent for Absalom upon the roof; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

2 Samuel 20:3

And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house, and put them in a house under guard, and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.

2 Samuel 24:17

Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was smiting the people, and said, “Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, be against me and against my father's house.”

Job 4:5

But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.

Job 40:5

I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further.”

Ezekiel 16:52

Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have made judgment favorable to your sisters; because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.

Habakkuk 1:13

Thou who art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on wrong, why dost thou look on faithless men, and art silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?

Matthew 3:8

Bear fruit that befits repentance,

John 8:9

But when they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the eldest, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

Romans 13:12

the night is far gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light;

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

1 Samuel 24:17

He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have repaid me good, whereas I have repaid you evil.

1 Samuel 24:18

And you have declared this day how you have dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me when the Lord put me into your hands.