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Matthew 1:3
Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram, (niv)
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Genesis 38:13-30
When Tamar was told,“ Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,”she took off her widow’s clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said,“ Come now, let me sleep with you.”“ And what will you give me to sleep with you?” she asked.“ I’ll send you a young goat from my flock,” he said.“ Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it?” she asked.He said,“ What pledge should I give you?”“ Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand,” she answered. So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.After she left, she took off her veil and put on her widow’s clothes again.Meanwhile Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get his pledge back from the woman, but he did not find her.He asked the men who lived there,“ Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?”“ There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute here,” they said.So he went back to Judah and said,“ I didn’t find her. Besides, the men who lived there said,‘ There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute here.’”Then Judah said,“ Let her keep what she has, or we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you didn’t find her.”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!”As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law.“ I am pregnant by the man who owns these,” she said. And she added,“ See if you recognize whose seal and cord and staff these are.”Judah recognized them and said,“ She is more righteous than I, since I wouldn’t give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not sleep with her again.When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and said,“ This one came out first.”But when he drew back his hand, his brother came out, and she said,“ So this is how you have broken out!” And he was named Perez.Then his brother, who had the scarlet thread on his wrist, came out. And he was named Zerah. (niv)
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Ruth 4:12
Through the offspring the Lord gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.” (niv)
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Luke 3:33
the son of Amminadab, the son of Ram, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, (niv)
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Numbers 26:13
through Zerah, the Zerahite clan; through Shaul, the Shaulite clan. (niv)
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1 Chronicles 9 4
Uthai son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, a descendant of Perez son of Judah. (niv)
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1 Chronicles 9 6
Of the Zerahites: Jeuel. The people from Judah numbered 690. (niv)
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Nehemiah 11:4
while other people from both Judah and Benjamin lived in Jerusalem): From the descendants of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, a descendant of Perez; (niv)
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Genesis 38:11
Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar,“ Live as a widow in your father’s household until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought,“ He may die too, just like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s household. (niv)
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Nehemiah 11:24
Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, one of the descendants of Zerah son of Judah, was the king’s agent in all affairs relating to the people. (niv)
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Ruth 4:18
This, then, is the family line of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron, (niv)
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Numbers 26:20-21
The descendants of Judah by their clans were: through Shelah, the Shelanite clan; through Perez, the Perezite clan; through Zerah, the Zerahite clan.The descendants of Perez were: through Hezron, the Hezronite clan; through Hamul, the Hamulite clan. (niv)
