24 About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law, Tamar, has been acting like a prostitute, and now she is pregnant.”

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

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If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by promiscuity,[a](A) she defiles her father; she must be burned to death.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 21:9 Or prostitution

15 On the fourth[a] day they said to Samson’s wife, “Persuade your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s family to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”

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Footnotes

  1. 14:15 LXX, Syr; MT reads seventh

16 The ten horns you saw, and the beast, will hate the prostitute.(A) They will make her desolate and naked, devour her flesh, and burn her up with fire.(B)

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