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CHAP. XXXVIII.

 

Iudas hauing three sonnes by a Chananite, 6. marieth the first, and after his death, the second to Thamar, 10. who also dying, he delayeth to match the third with her. 15. But himselfe begetteth of her (taking her for a harlot) two sonnes twinnes, Phares and Zara.

 

THE ^[1] same time Iudas going downe from his brethren, turned in to a man an Odolamite, named Hiras. ²And he saw there the daughter of a man of Chanaan, called Sue: and taking her to wife, he did companie with her. ³Who conceaued, and bare a sonne, and called his name Her. ⁴And conceauing a child againe, she called her sonne after he was borne, Onan. ⁵She bare also the third: whom she called Sela: after whose birth, she ceased to beare any more. ⁶And Iudas gaue a wife to Her his first-begotten, named Thamar. ⁷Also Her the first-begotten of Iudas, was wicked in the sight of our Lord, and was slaine of him. ⁸Iudas therfore said to Onan his sonne: Companie with thy brothers wife, and be ioyned to her, that thou mayest ″ rayse seed to thy brother. ⁹He knowing that the children should not be borne to himselfe, companying with his brothers wife, shed his seed vpon the ground, lest children might be borne in his brothers name. ¹⁰And therfore our Lord struck him, because he did a detestable thing. ¹¹For the which cause Iudas said to Thamar his daughter in law: Be a widowe in thy fathers house, til Sela my sonne grow vp: for he feared lest he also might dye, as his brethren. Who went her way and dwelt in her fathers house. ¹²And after many dayes were come and gone: the daughter of Sue the wife of Iudas died. Who after his mourning hauing receiued consolation, went vp to the shearers of his sheep, himselfe and Hiras his shepheard of his flocke, the Odolamite, into Thamnas. ¹³And it was told ^[2] Thamar that her father in law came vp into Thamnas to sheare his sheep. ¹⁴Who putting off the garments of her widowhood, tooke a veile: and changing her habite, sate in the crosse way, that leadeth to Thamnas: because Sela was growne, and she had not taken him to her husband. ¹⁵Whom when Iudas had seen, he supposed her to be an harlot: for she had couered her face, lest she should be knowen. ¹⁶And going vnto her, he said: Suffer me to lye with thee: for he knew her not to be his daughter in law. Who answering: What wilt thou giue me that thou maiest enioy my companie? ¹⁷He said: I wil send thee a kid out of the flockes. And when she said againe: I wil suffer that thou wilt, if thou giue me a pledge, til thou

1. Moyses inserteth here this historie, because Christ should be borne of the genealogie of Iudas and Phares, Mat. 1.
2. Thamar sinned desiring to be a mother without lawful mariage: and Iudas sinned lying with a supposed harlot. S. Aug. li. 12. c. 61. 62. & 63. cont. Faust.