Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content
Previous Next
Add parallel Print Page Options

Genesis 38:11
New English Translation

11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until Shelah my son grows up.” For he thought,[a] “I don’t want him to die like his brothers.”[b] So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 38:11 tn Heb “said.”
  2. Genesis 38:11 tn Heb “Otherwise he will die, also he, like his brothers.”sn I don’t want him to die like his brothers. This clause explains that Judah had no intention of giving Shelah to Tamar for the purpose of the levirate marriage. Judah apparently knew the nature of his sons, and feared that God would be angry with the third son and kill him as well.
Genesis 38:11 in all English translations
Next
Genesis 37
Genesis 39
Next
dropdown
New English Translation (NET)

NET Bible® copyright ©1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com All rights reserved.