1 Chronicles 2:4
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4 His daughter-in-law (A)Tamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.
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Matthew 1:3
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3 and (A)Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram,[a]
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- Matthew 1:3 Greek Aram; also verse 4
Genesis 38:13-30
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13 And when Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,” 14 she took off her widow's garments (A)and covered herself with a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to (B)Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up, (C)and she had not been given to him in marriage. 15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. 16 He turned to her at the roadside and said, “Come, let me come in to you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?” 17 He answered, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” And she said, “If you give me a pledge, until you send it—” 18 He said, “What pledge shall I give you?” She replied, (D)“Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him. 19 Then she arose and went away, and taking off (E)her veil she put on the garments of her widowhood.
20 When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite to take back the pledge from the woman's hand, he did not find her. 21 And he asked the men of the place, “Where is the cult prostitute[a] who was at (F)Enaim at the roadside?” And they said, “No cult prostitute has been here.” 22 So he returned to Judah and said, “I have not found her. Also, the men of the place said, ‘No cult prostitute has been here.’” 23 And Judah replied, “Let her keep the things as her own, or we shall be laughed at. You see, I sent this young goat, and you did not find her.”
24 About three months later Judah was told, “Tamar your daughter-in-law (G)has been immoral.[b] Moreover, she is pregnant by immorality.”[c] And Judah said, “Bring her out, and (H)let her be burned.” 25 As she was being brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, “By the man to whom these belong, I am pregnant.” And she said, “Please identify whose these are, (I)the signet and the cord and the staff.” 26 Then Judah identified them and said, (J)“She is more righteous than I, since (K)I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not know her again.
27 When the time of her labor came, there were twins in her womb. 28 And when she was in labor, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This one came out first.” 29 But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out. And she said, “What a breach you have made for yourself!” Therefore his name was called (L)Perez.[d] 30 Afterward his brother came out with the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called (M)Zerah.
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- Genesis 38:21 Hebrew sacred woman; a woman who served a pagan deity by prostitution; also verse 22
- Genesis 38:24 Or has committed prostitution
- Genesis 38:24 Or by prostitution
- Genesis 38:29 Perez means a breach
Luke 3:33
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33 the son of Amminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,
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Nehemiah 11:24
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24 And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the sons of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's side[a] in all matters concerning the people.
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- Nehemiah 11:24 Hebrew hand
Nehemiah 11:4
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4 And in Jerusalem lived certain of the sons of Judah and of the sons of Benjamin. Of the sons of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, son of Zechariah, son of Amariah, son of Shephatiah, son of Mahalalel, of the sons of (A)Perez;
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1 Chronicles 9:6
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6 Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their kinsmen, 690.
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1 Chronicles 9:4
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4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, son of Omri, son of Imri, son of Bani, from the sons of (A)Perez the son of Judah.
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Ruth 4:18
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The Genealogy of David
18 Now these are the generations of Perez: (A)Perez fathered Hezron,
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Ruth 4:12
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12 and may your house be like the house of Perez, (A)whom Tamar bore to Judah, because (B)of the offspring that the Lord will give you by this young woman.”
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Numbers 26:20-21
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20 And the sons of Judah according to their clans were: of Shelah, the clan of the Shelanites; of Perez, the clan of the Perezites; of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites. 21 And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the clan of the Hamulites.
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Numbers 26:13
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13 of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the clan of the Shaulites.
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Genesis 38:11
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11 Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, (A)“Remain a widow in your father's house, till Shelah my son grows up”—for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and remained (B)in her father's house.
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