Genesis 38:24

Modern English Version

After about three months, it was told Judah, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has turned to prostitution, and what is more, as a result of prostitution she is pregnant.” Then Judah said, “Bring her forth, and let her be burned!”

Cross References

Genesis 20:3

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man’s wife.”

Genesis 20:7

Therefore return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet and he will pray for you. Moreover, you will live. However, if you do not return her, know that you will surely die, you and all who are yours.”

Genesis 20:9

Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I offended you that you would bring on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done things to me that should not have been done.”

Genesis 34:31

But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?”

Genesis 38:23

Judah replied, “Let her keep them for herself, or we shall be laughed at. I sent this young goat, and you did not find her.”

2 Samuel 12:5

David became very angry because of this man. He said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die.

2 Samuel 12:7

Then Nathan told David, “You are this man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I anointed you as king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find more bitter than death a woman whose heart is like snares and nets, whose hands are like prison cells. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.

Jeremiah 2:20

For long ago I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds; and you said, “I will not serve.” For upon every high hill and under every green tree you wander, playing the harlot.

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife, and she goes from him and becomes another man’s, shall he return to her again? Shall not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to Me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:6

The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.

Jeremiah 3:8

I saw that for all the adulteries of backsliding Israel, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.

Ezekiel 16:15

But you trusted in your own beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and poured out your fornications on every willing passerby.

Ezekiel 16:25

You have built yourself a high place at the head of every street, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have spread your legs to every passerby to multiply your harlotries.

Ezekiel 16:26

You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and increased your harlotries to provoke Me to anger.

Ezekiel 16:28

You have played the harlot also with the Assyrians because you were insatiable. Indeed, you have played the harlot with them, and yet could not be satisfied.

Ezekiel 16:41

They shall burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. And I will cause you to cease from playing the harlot, and you also shall give no hire anymore.

Ezekiel 23:19

Yet she multiplied her harlotries while remembering the days of her youth in which she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 23:44

Yet they went in to her as they go in to a woman who plays the harlot. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.

Ezekiel 23:5

Oholah played the harlot when she was Mine. And she lusted after her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,

Hosea 2:5

For their mother has played the whore. She that conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, “I will pursue my lovers, who provide my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”

Hosea 3:3

Then I said to her, “You will remain with me many days. You will not play the whore, and you will not belong to another man. And also I will be with you.”

Hosea 4:15

Though you play the whore, O Israel, do not let Judah offend. Do not come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear, “As the Lord lives.”

Leviticus 20:10

If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 21:9

The daughter of any priest, if she defiles herself by being a whore, she also defiles her father. She shall be burned with fire.

Romans 14:22

The faith that you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.

Deuteronomy 24:16

Fathers may not be put to death for the sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

Judges 19:2

Yet his concubine became angry with him and went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah. She was there for four months.