SEV Biblia, Chapter 38:28
Y sucedió, cuando dio a luz, que sacó la mano el uno , y la partera tomó y ató a su mano un hilo de grana, diciendo: Este salió primero.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:28
Verse 28. The midwife-bound upon his hand a scarlet thread] The binding of the scarlet thread about the wrist of the child whose arm appeared first in the birth, serves to show us how solicitously the privileges of the birthright were preserved. Had not this caution been taken by the midwife, Pharez would have had the right of primogeniture to the prejudice of his elder brother Zarah. And yet Pharez is usually reckoned in the genealogical tables before Zarah; and from him, not Zarah, does the line of our Lord proceed. See Matt. i. 3. Probably the two brothers, as being twins, were conjoined in the privileges belonging to the birthright.
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 בלדתה 3205 ויתן 5414 יד 3027 ותקח 3947 המילדת 3205 ותקשׁר 7194 על 5921 ידו 3027 שׁני 8144 לאמר 559 זה 2088 יצא 3318 ראשׁנה׃ 7223
