Genesis 38:29

_AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE DREW BACK HIS HAND, THAT, BEHOLD, HIS BROTHER CAME OUT: AND SHE SAID, HOW HAST THOU BROKEN FORTH? THIS BREACH BE UPON THEE: THEREFORE HIS NAME WAS CALLED PHAREZ._ How hast thou broken forth? (this) breach (be) upon thee. The demonstrative pronoun, which our translators have inserted before "breach," has no equivalent in the original: the word is without the definite article. There is an ambiguity in the exclamation of the midwife, whose words have been variously interpreted. Rosenmuller, Maurer, and others, render the second clause, 'on thee the blame of this breach lies.' Knobel considers it an imprecation-`a breach be upon thee.' But the historian does not hint at the existence of such a feeling, and simply relates the incident of the birth as a remarkable ocurrence. Delitzsch unites the two clauses by translating, 'How hast thou broken through a rent (forc...

Verse Genesis 38:29. _HOW HAST THOU BROKEN FORTH?_] מה פרצת _mah paratsta_, this _breach be upon thee_, עליך פרץ aleycka parets; thou shalt bear the name of the _breach_ thou hast made, i. e., in coming first into the world. Therefore his name was called פרץ _Parets_, i. e., the person who made the _breach_. The _breach_ here mentioned refers to a certain circumstance in parturition which it is unnecessary to explain....

- The Family of Judah 1. עדלם _‛__ǎdûllâm_, ‘Adullam, “righteousness.” חירה _chı̂yrâh_ Chirah, “nobility?” 2. שׁוּע _shûa‛_, Shua‘, “luck, riches, cry.” 3. ער _‛__êr_, ‘Er, “watching.” 4. אונן _'ônân_, Onan, “strong.” 5. שׁלה _shēlâh_, Shelah, “request? rest.” כזיב _k__e__zı̂yb_ Kezib, “falsehood.” 6. תמר _tāmār_, Tamar, “palm.” 12. תמנה _tı̂mnâh_, Timnah

EXPOSITION GENESIS 38:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS. The present chapter appears to interrupt the continuity of the narrative of Joseph's history. Partly on this account, and partly because the name Jehovah occurs in it (Genesis 38:7, Genesis 38:10), it has been pronounced a later Jehovistic interpolation (Tuch, Bleek, Davidson, Coleuso). Its design has been explained as an attempt to glorify the line of David by representing it as sprung from Judah (Bohlen), or to disclose the origin of the Levitate law of marriage among the Jews (Knobel); but the incidents here recorded of Judah and his family are fitted to reflect dishonor instead of glory on the ancestry of David (Havernick)

AND IT CAME TO PASS AS HE DREW BACK HIS HAND,.... Into the "uterus" again; THAT, BEHOLD, HIS BROTHER CAME OUT; out of his mother's womb, and so was properly born first: AND SHE SAID; either Tamar, or rather, her midwife: HOW HAST THOU BROKEN FORTH? it was astonishing to her how it could be, having never met with the like in her practice before; she could not imagine how it was possible for him to come forth first, when his brother lay in the way of him, and nearest the birth, as appeared by his putting out his hand: [THIS] BREACH [BE] UPON THEE; if any damage comes either to the mother or to the brother, and so carries in it the nature of an imprecation; or rather, that the memory of so strange an event might be preserved, she imposed a name on him that should continue it: THEREFORE HIS NAME WAS CALLED PHAREZ: or "therefore he called", c. k Judah called his name Pharez, agreeab

CHAPTER 38 JUDAH AND TAMAR _ 1. Judah's marriage to the Canaanitish woman (Genesis 38:1)_ 2. His sons: Er, Onan and Shelah (Genesis 38:3) 3. Tamar married to Er and Onan (Genesis 38:6) 4. Tamar waiting for Shelah (Genesis 38:11) 5. Her deception and Judah's sin (Genesis 38:12) 6. The birth of Pharez and Zarah (Genesis 38:27) Historically this chapter comes before the thirty-seventh. The higher critics are one

GENESIS 38. JUDAH AND TAMAR. The source is J, but not the same stratum as that to which the Joseph story belongs. There is not room for the events either before or after the events of Genesis 37, nor does the Joseph narrative suggest that Judah left his brothers and lived the independent life here described. The chronology is quite inconsistent with the view that Genesis is a unity. Judah was roughly about twenty when Joseph, at the age at least of seventeen (Genesis 37:2), went into Egypt. The interval between that event and the journey of Jacob into Egypt was not more than twenty-two years. Within that period the whole of the events of this chapter have been crowded; moreover, Perez has two sons by its close (Genesis 46:12). To a certain extent the chapter contains tribal history. Judah at first consisted

Birth of Perez and Zerah 29. _Wherefore hast_, &c. _How hast thou made a breach! a breach be upon thee_! _Perez_ That is, _a breach_. For Perez, see Ruth 4:12; Ruth 4:18....

PART FORTY-FIVE THE INCIDENT OF JUDAH AND TAMAR (Genesis 38:1-30) _The Biblical Account._ 1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. 2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; and he took her, and went in unto her. 3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Ezra 4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan. 5 And she yet again bare a son, and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him. 6 And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar. 7 And Er. Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah; and Jehovah slew him. 8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife

38:29 Pherez. (c-36) Breach....