24 And it came to pass, about three months after, that Judah was told, saying, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has (A)played the harlot; furthermore she is [a]with child by harlotry.”

So Judah said, “Bring her out (B)and let her be burned!”

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  1. Genesis 38:24 pregnant

24 About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant.”

Judah said, “Bring her out and have her burned to death!”(A)

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The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, she profanes her father. She shall be (A)burned with fire.

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“‘If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.(A)

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For their mother has played the harlot;
She who conceived them has behaved shamefully.
For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
(A)Who give me my bread and my water,
My wool and my linen,
My oil and my drink.’

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Their mother has been unfaithful
    and has conceived them in disgrace.
She said, ‘I will go after my lovers,(A)
    who give me my food and my water,
    my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.’(B)

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44 Yet they went in to her, as men go in to a woman who plays the harlot; thus they went in to Oholah and Oholibah, the lewd women.

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44 And they slept with her. As men sleep with a prostitute, so they slept with those lewd women, Oholah and Oholibah.

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19 “Yet she multiplied her harlotry
In calling to remembrance the days of her youth,
(A)When she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

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19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.

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The Older Sister, Samaria

“Oholah played the harlot even though she was Mine;
And she lusted for her lovers, the neighboring (A)Assyrians,

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“Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians(A)—warriors(B)

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But his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there four whole months.

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But she was unfaithful to him. She left him and went back to her parents’ home in Bethlehem, Judah. After she had been there four months,

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22 [a]Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. (A)Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.

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  1. Romans 14:22 NU The faith which you have—have

22 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn(A) himself by what he approves.

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God’s Righteous Judgment

Therefore you are (A)inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, (B)for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

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God’s Righteous Judgment

You, therefore, have no excuse,(A) you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.(B) Now we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.

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Do Not Judge(A)

“Judge[a] (B)not, that you be not judged. For with what [b]judgment you judge, you will be judged; (C)and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. (D)And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

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  1. Matthew 7:1 Condemn
  2. Matthew 7:2 Condemnation

Judging Others(A)

“Do not judge, or you too will be judged.(B) For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.(C)

“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

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15 “Though you, Israel, play the harlot,
Let not Judah offend.
(A)Do not come up to Gilgal,
Nor go up to (B)Beth[a] Aven,
(C)Nor swear an oath, saying, ‘As the Lord lives’—

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  1. Hosea 4:15 Lit. House of Idolatry or Wickedness

15 “Though you, Israel, commit adultery,
    do not let Judah become guilty.

“Do not go to Gilgal;(A)
    do not go up to Beth Aven.[a](B)
    And do not swear, ‘As surely as the Lord lives!’(C)

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  1. Hosea 4:15 Beth Aven means house of wickedness (a derogatory name for Bethel, which means house of God).

And I said to her, “You shall (A)stay with me many days; you shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man—so, too, will I be toward you.”

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Then I told her, “You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will behave the same way toward you.”

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41 They shall (A)burn your houses with fire, and (B)execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will make you (C)cease playing the harlot, and you shall no longer hire lovers.

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41 They will burn down(A) your houses and inflict punishment on you in the sight of many women.(B) I will put a stop(C) to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay your lovers.

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