SEV Biblia, Chapter 38:24
¶ Y acaeció que al cabo de unos tres meses fue dado aviso a Judá, diciendo: Tamar tu nuera ha fornicado, y aun cierto está encinta de las fornicaciones. Y Judá dijo: Sacadla, y sea quemada.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:24
Verse 24. Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.] As he had ordered Tamar to live as a widow in her own father's house till his son Shelah should be marriageable, he considers her therefore as the wife of his son; and as Shelah was not yet given to her, and she is found with child, she is reputed by him as an adulteress, and burning, it seems, was anciently the punishment of this crime. Judah, being a patriarch or head of a family, had, according to the custom of those times, the supreme magisterial authority over all the branches of his own family; therefore he only acts here in his juridical capacity. How strange that in the very place where adultery was punished by the most violent death, prostitution for money and for religious purposes should be considered as no crime!
Matthew Henry Commentary
The profligate conduct of Judah and his family. --This chapter gives an account of Judah and his family, and such a account it is, that it seems a wonder that of all Jacob's sons, ou Lord should spring out of Judah, Heb 7:14. But God will show that his choice is of grace and not of merit, and that Christ came into the world to save sinners, even the chief. Also, that the worthiness of Christ is of himself, and not from his ancestors. How little reason ha the Jews, who were so called from this Judah, to boast as they did, Jo 8:41. What awful examples the Lord proclaims in his punishments, of his utter displeasure at sin! Let us seek grace from God to avoid ever appearance of sin. And let that state of humbleness to which Jesu submitted, when he came to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself, in appointing such characters as those here recorded, to be his ancestors endear the Redeemer to our hearts __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויהי 1961 כמשׁלשׁ 7969 חדשׁים 2320 ויגד 5046 ליהודה 3063 לאמר 559 זנתה 2181 תמר 8559 כלתך 3618 וגם 1571 הנה 2009 הרה 2030 לזנונים 2183 ויאמר 559 יהודה 3063 הוציאוה 3318 ותשׂרף׃ 8313
