²⁴ 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.”^(A)

⁹ When the daughter of a priest profanes herself through prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burned to death.

⁴⁴ They have^[a] gone in to her as one goes in to a prostitute. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, wanton women.

¹⁹ Yet she increased her prostitutions, remembering the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt

⁵ Oholah prostituted herself while she was mine; she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors^[a](A)

² But his concubine became angry with^[a] him, and she went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah and was there some four months.

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.

The Righteous Judgment of God

2 Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others, for in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things.^{(A) 2} We know that God’s judgment on those who do such things is in accordance with truth.

Judging Others

7 “Do not judge, so that you may not be judged.^{(A) 2} For the judgment you give will be the judgment you get, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. ³ Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye but do not notice the log in your own eye? ⁴ Or how can you say to your neighbor, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while the log is in your own eye? ⁵ You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye.