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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Genesis 38:11

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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38:11 Judah is now presented as the model for his sons’ behavior—he, too, was unfaithful to his levirate responsibility to Tamar as next kinsman (see study note on 38:8). Judah and his sons were far too Canaanite in their ways (see study note on 38:27-30; contrast Boaz, Ruth 3–4).
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