Genesis 38:24

New American Bible - revised edition

About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has acted like a harlot and now she is pregnant from her harlotry.” Judah said, “Bring her out; let her be burned.”

Cross References

Genesis 20:3

But God came to Abimelech in a dream one night and said to him: You are about to die because of the woman you have taken, for she has a husband.

Genesis 20:7

So now, return the man’s wife so that he may intercede for you, since he is a prophet, that you may live. If you do not return her, you can be sure that you and all who are yours will die.

Genesis 20:9

Then Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him: “What have you done to us! What wrong did I do to you that you would have brought such great guilt on me and my kingdom? You have treated me in an intolerable way.

Genesis 34:31

But they retorted, “Should our sister be treated like a prostitute?”

Genesis 38:23

“Let her keep the things,” Judah replied; “otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you did not find her.”

2 Samuel 12:5

David grew very angry with that man and said to Nathan: “As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves death!

2 Samuel 12:7

Then Nathan said to David: “You are that man! Nathan’s Indictment. “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: I anointed you king over Israel. I delivered you from the hand of Saul.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

More bitter than death I find the woman who is a hunter’s trap, whose heart is a snare, whose hands are prison bonds. The one who pleases God will be delivered from her, but the one who displeases will be entrapped by her.

Jeremiah 2:20

Long ago you broke your yoke, you tore off your bonds. You said, “I will not serve.” On every high hill, under every green tree, you sprawled and served as a prostitute.

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and then becomes the wife of another, Can she return to the first? Would not this land be wholly defiled? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers, and yet you would return to me!—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:6

The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Do you see what rebellious Israel has done? She has gone up every high mountain, and under every green tree she has played the prostitute.

Jeremiah 3:8

that, in response to all the adulteries rebel Israel had committed, I sent her away and gave her a bill of divorce, nevertheless Judah, the traitor, her sister, was not frightened; she too went off and played the prostitute.

Ezekiel 16:15

But you trusted in your own beauty and used your renown to serve as a prostitute. You poured out your prostitution on every passerby—let it be his.

Ezekiel 16:25

At every intersection you built yourself a dais so that you could degrade your beauty by spreading your legs for every passerby, multiplying your prostitutions.

Ezekiel 16:26

You served as a prostitute with the Egyptians, your big-membered neighbors, and multiplied your prostitutions to provoke me.

Ezekiel 16:28

You also served as a prostitute for the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied. Even after serving as a prostitute for them, you were still not satisfied.

Ezekiel 16:41

They shall set fire to your homes and inflict punishments on you while many women watch. Thus I will put an end to your prostitution, and you shall never again offer payment.

Ezekiel 23:19

But she increased her prostitution, recalling the days of her youth when she had served as a prostitute in the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 23:44

And indeed they did come in to her as men come in to a prostitute. Thus they came to Oholah and Oholibah, the depraved women.

Ezekiel 23:5

Oholah became a prostitute while married to me and lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians: warriors

Hosea 2:5

Or I will strip her naked, leaving her as on the day of her birth; I will make her like the wilderness, make her like an arid land, and let her die of thirst.

Hosea 3:3

Then I said to her: “You will wait for me for many days; you will not prostitute yourself Or belong to any man; I in turn will wait for you.”

Hosea 4:15

Though you prostitute yourself, Israel, do not let Judah become guilty! Do not come to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, do not swear, “As the Lord lives!”

Leviticus 20:10

If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.

Leviticus 21:9

If a priest’s daughter debases herself by prostitution, she thereby debases her father; she shall be burned with fire.

Romans 14:22

Keep the faith [that] you have to yourself in the presence of God; blessed is the one who does not condemn himself for what he approves.

Deuteronomy 24:16

Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their parents; only for one’s own crime shall a person be put to death. Rights of the Unprotected.

Judges 19:2

But his concubine spurned him and left him for her father’s house in Bethlehem of Judah, where she stayed for some four months.