John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 38:2

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, etc.] Onkelos and Jonathan, and so Jarchi and Ben Gersom, interpret it a “merchant”, to take off the disgrace of his falling in love with, and marrying a Canaanitish woman, which was forbidden by his ancestors Abraham and Isaac, and which his father avoided: whose name [was] Shuah; not the name of the woman he married, but the name of her father, as appears from (<013812>Genesis 38:12); and who very probably was a man of note in the country: and he took her; to be his wife, with her and her father’s consent, not by force: and went in unto her; cohabited with her as his wife.

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