Genesis 38:24

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself; moreover, she is pregnant as a result of prostitution.” And Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”

Cross References

Genesis 20:3

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “You are about to die because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a married woman.”

Genesis 20:7

Now then, return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all that are yours.”

Genesis 20:9

Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought such great guilt on me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that ought not to be done.”

Genesis 34:31

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

Genesis 38:23

Judah replied, “Let her keep the things as her own, otherwise we will be laughed at; you see, I sent this kid, and you could not find her.”

2 Samuel 12:5

Then David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man. He said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die;

2 Samuel 12:7

Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I anointed you king over Israel, and I rescued you from the hand of Saul;

Ecclesiastes 7:26

I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is nets, whose hands are fetters; one who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

Jeremiah 2:20

For long ago you broke your yoke and burst your bonds, and you said, “I will not serve!” On every high hill and under every green tree you sprawled and prostituted yourself.

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not such a land be greatly polluted? You have prostituted yourself with many lovers, and would you return to me? says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:6

The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree and prostituted herself there?

Jeremiah 3:8

She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce, yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she also went and prostituted herself.

Ezekiel 16:15

But you trusted in your beauty and prostituted yourself because of your fame and lavished your prostitutions on any passer-by.

Ezekiel 16:25

at the head of every street you built your lofty place and prostituted your beauty, offering yourself to every passer-by and multiplying your prostitution.

Ezekiel 16:26

You prostituted yourself with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.

Ezekiel 16:28

You prostituted yourself with the Assyrians because you were insatiable; you prostituted yourself with them, and still you were not satisfied.

Ezekiel 16:41

They shall burn your houses and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; I will stop you from prostituting yourself, and you shall also make no more payments.

Ezekiel 23:19

Yet she increased her prostitutions, remembering the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt

Ezekiel 23:44

They have gone in to her as one goes in to a prostitute. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, wanton women.

Ezekiel 23:5

Oholah prostituted herself while she was mine; she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors

Hosea 2:5

For their mother has prostituted herself; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, “I will go after my lovers; they give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”

Hosea 3:3

And I said to her, “You must remain as mine for many days; you shall not prostitute yourself; you shall not have intercourse with a man, nor I with you.”

Hosea 4:15

Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, do not let Judah become guilty. Do not enter into Gilgal or go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear, “As the Lord lives.”

Leviticus 20:10

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

Leviticus 21:9

When the daughter of a priest profanes herself through prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burned to death.

Romans 14:22

Hold the conviction that you have as your own before God. Blessed are those who do not condemn themselves because of what they approve.

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 their own crimes may persons be put to death.

Judges 19:2

But his concubine became angry with him, and she went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah and was there some four months.