Quotes about Family
Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.
— Genesis 38:11
When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
— Genesis 38:13
Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.
— Genesis 38:16
About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
— Genesis 38:24
As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”
— Genesis 38:25
Judah recognized the items and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.
— Genesis 38:26
When the time came for Tamar to give birth, there were twins in her womb.
— Genesis 38:27
But when he pulled his hand back and his brother came out, she said, “You have broken out first!” So he was named Perez.
— Genesis 38:29
Then his brother came out with the scarlet thread around his wrist, and he was named Zerah.
— Genesis 38:30
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”
— Genesis 41:51
So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
— Genesis 42:3
But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”
— Genesis 42:4