more righteous Judah acknowledges that Tamar had a claim upon the observance of marriage customs, and that he had done wrong in neglecting her, and in ignoring the sacred obligations of tribal "levirate" marriage, upon which depended the very existence of an Oriental community. The Heb. verb means "to be right, to have right on one's side"; and Judah's words might be rendered "she is in her rights as against me" (cf. Davidson's Theology of the O.T., p. 267).

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