Genesis 38:24

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About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has been acting like a prostitute. What’s more, because of it she’s pregnant.” Judah ordered, “Bring her out to be burned.”

Cross References

Genesis 20:3

God came to Abimelech in a dream one night and said to him, “You’re going to die because of the woman that you’ve taken! She’s a married woman!”

Genesis 20:7

Give the man’s wife back to him now, because he’s a prophet. He will pray for you, and you will live. But if you don’t give her back, you and all who belong to you are doomed to die.”

Genesis 20:9

Then Abimelech called for Abraham and asked him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you that you would bring such a serious sin on me and my kingdom? You shouldn’t have done this to me.”

Genesis 34:31

Simeon and Levi asked, “Should Shechem have been allowed to treat our sister like a prostitute?”

Genesis 38:23

Then Judah said, “Let her keep what I gave her, or we’ll become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you couldn’t find her.”

2 Samuel 12:5

David burned with anger against the man. “I solemnly swear, as the Lord lives,” he said to Nathan, “the man who did this certainly deserves to die!

2 Samuel 12:7

“You are the man!” Nathan told David. “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: I anointed you king over Israel and rescued you from Saul.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

I find that a woman whose thoughts are ⌞like⌟ traps and snares is more bitter than death itself. Even her hands are ⌞like⌟ chains. Whoever pleases God will escape her, but she will catch whoever continues to sin.

Jeremiah 2:20

“Long ago you broke off your yoke, tore off your chains, and said that you wouldn’t be a slave. You lay down and acted like a prostitute on every high hill and under every large tree.

Jeremiah 3:1

A saying: If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, her first husband shouldn’t go back to her again. The land would become thoroughly polluted. “You have acted like a prostitute who has many lovers. And now you want to come back to me!” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:6

When Josiah was king, the Lord asked me, “Did you see what unfaithful Israel did? She went up every high mountain and under every large tree, and she acted like a prostitute there.

Jeremiah 3:8

Judah saw that I sent unfaithful Israel away because of her adultery and that I gave Israel her divorce papers. But treacherous Judah, her sister, wasn’t afraid. She also acted like a prostitute.

Ezekiel 16:15

“ ‘But you trusted your beauty, and you used your fame to become a prostitute. You had sex with everyone who walked by.

Ezekiel 16:25

You also built worship sites at the head of every street. You used your beauty to seduce people there. You offered your body to everyone who passed by. You increased your acts of prostitution.

Ezekiel 16:26

You had sex with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians. You used your prostitution to make me angry.

Ezekiel 16:28

“ ‘You had sex with the Assyrians because you weren’t satisfied. You still weren’t satisfied.

Ezekiel 16:41

They will burn your houses and punish you in the presence of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay others.

Ezekiel 23:19

She remembered how she had been a prostitute in Egypt when she was young. So she took part in even more prostitution.

Ezekiel 23:44

Men slept with her. They slept with those sinful women, Oholah and Oholibah just as they slept with a prostitute.

Ezekiel 23:5

Oholah acted like a prostitute, although she was my wife. She lusted after her Assyrian lovers who lived nearby.

Hosea 2:5

Their mother acted like a prostitute. The woman who became pregnant with them did shameful things. She said, ‘I’ll chase after my lovers. They will give me food and water, wool and linen, olive oil and wine.’

Hosea 3:3

Then I told her, “You must wait for me a long time. Don’t be a prostitute or offer yourself to any man. I will wait for you.”

Hosea 4:15

“Israel, you act like a prostitute. Don’t let Judah become guilty too. Don’t go to Gilgal. Don’t go to Beth Aven. Don’t take the oath, ‘As the Lord lives. …’

Leviticus 20:10

“If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife or with his neighbor’s wife, both he and the woman must be put to death for their adultery.

Leviticus 21:9

When a priest’s daughter dishonors herself by becoming a prostitute, she dishonors her father. She must be burned.

Romans 14:22

So whatever you believe about these things, keep it between yourself and God. The person who does what he knows is right shouldn’t feel guilty. He is blessed.

Deuteronomy 24:16

Parents must never be put to death for the crimes of their children, and children must never be put to death for the crimes of their parents. Each person must be put to death for his own crime.

Judges 19:2

But she was unfaithful to him. She left him and went to her father’s home, to Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,