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Genesis 38:2
The Last Judgement (Continuation) # 82
82. The Jews are especially notable for failing to know that they are in the spiritual world, believing themselves still to be in the natural world. The reason is that they are utterly external people, having no inward thoughts about their religious beliefs. They therefore speak about the Messiah in the same way as previously. They say, for instance, that He will come with David and glittering with jewels will go before them, leading them into the land of Canaan, drying up rivers for them to cross by raising his rod. They say that the Christians, whom they refer to among themselves as gentiles, will then catch hold of the skirts of their clothes, humbly begging to be allowed to accompany them; and they will accept the rich if they are well enough off, and these will actually be their servants. They do not want to know that in the Word the land of Canaan means the church, Jerusalem the church as regards its teaching, and so the Jews mean all who are to belong to the Lord's church. (See THE TEACHING ABOUT THE SACRED SCRIPTURE 51 for the meaning of the Jews in the Word.)
When asked whether they believe they will really reach the land of Canaan, they say they will then go down into it. When they are told that the land could not hold them all, they reply that it will then be enlarged. When told that they do not know where Bethlehem is, and who are of the stock of David, they reply that the Messiah who is to come knows that. When asked how the Messiah, the Son of Jehovah, can live with such wicked people, they deny that they are wicked. When told that Moses nonetheless so describes them in his song (Deuteronomy 32), saying they are very wicked, they answer that Moses was then angry at their turning away 1 . But when they are told that Moses wrote that at Jehovah's orders, they keep quiet and go away to discuss it. When told that they are descended from a woman of Canaan and from Judah's fornication with his daughter-in-law (Genesis 38), they are angry, saying it is enough that they are descended from Abraham. When told that the Word inwardly contains a spiritual sense, which deals with nothing but Christ, they reply that this is untrue, but there is nothing inside the Word but gold, and much of the same sort besides.
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1. Reading respondent...discederent for respondet...discederet.
Genesis 38
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It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
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Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.
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She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.
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She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.
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She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.
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Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
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Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him.
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Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother."
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Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.
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The thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he killed him also.
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Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
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After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
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It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
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She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.
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When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
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He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"
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He said, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?"
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He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She said, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.
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She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
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Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he didn't find her.
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Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here."
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He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"
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Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven't found her."
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It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."
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When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man, whose these are, I am with child." She also said, "Please discern whose are these--the signet, and the cords, and the staff."
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Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son." He knew her again no more.
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It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.
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When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first."
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It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez.
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Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.
