Tamar

Nick started over the Bible again, so it made me want to, so I started.

So Tamar is a descendant of hers is David, and then Jesus, obviously.

And then just looking it up real quick, it's like there's a bunch of parallels they find with the story of Joseph.

With her and Joseph? No, mostly with the story of

about?

That

Tamara story?

Oh.

I find Judah's role quite significant and we'll make some notes as we go through and when you consider that the Messianic line was going to be through the tribe of Judah.

And I think you'll agree that Judah shows up in much better light here than he did back in chapter 38 with the Tamar affair.

So in our message this morning, we want to follow the three main scenes presented in this narrative.

We have scene one with Jacob and his sons in Canaan discussing the need to go back to Egypt to buy more food because of the famine.

Oh, and by the way, someone brought up Onanism in the – if you remember Onan, he was the one who was supposed to carry on the lineage for – I'm forgetting her name.

Tamar? Tamar, right? This sounds right.

Yes.

And he, instead of doing the deed fully, he took the pleasure and then dumped the seed.

Judah, the father of Perez.

Zerah, whose mother was Tamar.

Perez, the father of Hezron.

Hezron, the father of Ram.

This is the genealogy of Jesus, the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram, Ram the father of Amenadab, Amenadab the father of Nashon, Nashon the father of Salmon, Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, Boaz, the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth.

Obed, the father of Jesse, and Jesse, the father of King David.

David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah's wife.

A radical word in that day and age.

But it's the four women that Matthew mentions here in this genealogy that can leave you scratching your head.

There's Tamar in verse 3.

Her story's a doozy.

In earlier times, while a missed period would have been a first indication, pregnancy would not have been confirmed for a while.

The Torah mentions that it took three months for Tamar's pregnancy from Yehudah to become apparent, at least to others.

The Pasuk in Bereshit 38.24 reads, And it was after three months, and it was told to Yehuda saying, Your daughter-in-law Tamar has strayed sexually, and also behold she is pregnant from promiscuity, and Yehuda said, take her out and she shall be burnt.

Leaving aside the many complex elements of this story, from Yudah's strong reaction to this news of Tamar, it becomes clear that visual recognition of pregnancy at about the three-month stage was considered decisive.

Halachically, the point at which a pregnancy becomes known is called Hukar Ubarah, when her fetus is recognized.

Before we discuss the halachic aspects...

He said that her head is heavy for her and her limbs are heavy for her.

At the time when she sees menstrual blood, her head is not heavy for her, and her limbs are not heavy for her.

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war between jacob and esau death of esau and overthrow of his forces one to ten edom reduced to servitude till this day eleven to fourteen kings of edom fifteen to twenty four compare genesis thirty six thirty one to thirty nine and after that judah spake to jacob his father and said unto him bend thy bow father and send forth thy arrows and cast down the adversary and slay the enemy and mayest thou have the power for we shall not slay thy brother for he is such as thou and he is like thee let us give him this honour two then jacob bent his bow and sent forth the arrow and struck esau his brother on his right breast and slew him three and again he sent forth an arrow and struck doran the armean on the left breast and drove him backward and slew him four and then went forth the sons of jacob they and their servants dividing themselves into companies on the four sides of the tower five and judah went forth in front and naphtali and gad with him and fifty servants with him on the south side of the tower and they slew all they found before them and not one individual of them escaped six and levi and dan and asher went forth on the east side of the tower and fifty men with them and they slew the fighting men of moab and ammon seven and reuben and ishakar and went forth on the north side of the tower and fifty men with them and they slew the fighting men of the philistines aid and simeon and benjamin and enoch reuben's son went forth on the west side of the tower and fifty men with them and they slew of vedum and of the horites four hundred men stout warriors and six hundred fled and four of the sons of esau fled with them and left their father lying slain as he had fallen on the hill which is in nine and the sons of jacob pursued after them to the mountains of seir and jacob buried his brother on the hill which is in aduram and he returned to his house ten and the sons of jacob pressed hard upon the sons of esau in the mountains of seir and bowed their necks so that they became servants of the sons of jacob eleven and they sent to their father to inquire whether they should make peace with them or slay them twelve and jacob sent word to his sons that they should make peace and they made peace with them and placed the yoke of servitude upon them so that they paid tribute to jacob and to his sons always thirteen and they continued to pay tribute to jacob until the day that he went down into egypt fourteen and the sons of edom have not got quit of the yoke of servitude which the twelve sons of jacob had imposed on them until this day fifteen and these are the kings that reigned in edom before there reigned any king over the children of israel until this day in the land of edom sixteen and balak the son of bor reigned in edom and the name of his city was seventeen and balak died and jobab the son of zara of moser reigned in his stead eighteen and jobab died and hasam of the land of teman reigned in his stead nineteen and hasam died and adath the son of barad who slew midian in the field of moab reigned in his stead and the name of his city was twenty and adath died and salman from amaskwa reigned in his stead twenty one and salman died and saul of raaboth by the river reigned in his stead twenty two and saul died and baal lunan the son of achbar reigned in his stead twenty three and baal lunan the son of agbar died and adath reigned in his stead and the name of his wife was metabith the daughter of materat the daughter of metabed zaab twenty four these are the kings who reigned in the land of edom chapter thirty eight chapter thirty nine of the book of jubilees translated by robert charles this libervox recording is in the public domain joseph set over potiphar's house one to four his purity and imprisonment five to thirteen imprisonment of pharaoh's chief butler and chief baker whose dreams joseph interprets fourteen to eighteen compare genesis thirty seven to thirty nine three to eight twelve to fifteen seventeen to twenty three forty one to five twenty one to twenty three forty one one and jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings in the land of canaan to these are the generations of jacob and joseph was seventeen years old when they took him down into the land of egypt and potiphar and eunuch of pharaoh the chief cook bought him three and he set joseph over all his house and the blessing of the lord came upon the house of the egyptian on account of joseph and the lord prospered him in all that he did for and the egyptian committed everything into the hands of joseph for he saw that the lord was with him and that the lord prospered him in all that he did five and joseph's appearance was comely and very beautiful was his appearance and his master's wife lifted up her eyes and saw joseph and she loved him and besought him to lie with her six but he did not surrender his soul and he remembered the lord and the words which jacob his father used to read from amongst the words of abraham that no man should commit fornication with a woman who has a husband that for him the punishment of death has been ordained in the heavens before the most high god and the sin will be recorded against him in the eternal books continually before the lord seven and joseph remembered these words and refused to lie with her eight and she besought him for a year but he refused and would not listen nine but she embraced him and held him fast in the house in order to force him to lie with her and closed the doors of the house and held him fast but he left his garment in her hands and broke through the door and fled without from her presence ten and the woman saw that he would not lie with her and she calumniated him in the presence of his lord saying thy hebrew servant whom thou lovest sought to force me so that he might lie with me and it came to pass when i lifted up my voice that he fled and left his garment in my hands when i held him and he brake through the door eleven and the egyptians saw the garment of joseph and the broken door and heard the words of his wife and cast joseph into prison into the place where the prisoners were kept whom the king imprisoned twelve and he was there in the prison and the lord gave joseph favour in the sight of the chief of the prison guards and compassion before him for he saw that the lord was with him and that the lord made all that he did to prosper thirteen and he committed all things into his hands and the chief of the prison guards knew of nothing that was with him for joseph did everything and the lord perfected it fourteen and he remained there two years and in those days pharaoh king of egypt was wroth against his two eunuchs against the chief butler and against the chief baker and he put them in ward in the house of the chief cook in the prison where joseph was kept fifteen and the chief of the prison guards appointed joseph to serve them and he served before them sixteen and they both dreamed a dream the chief butler and the chief baker and they told it to joseph seventeen and as he interpreted to them so it befell them and pharaoh restored the chief butler to his office and the chief baker he slew as joseph had interpreted to them eighteen but the chief puddler forgot joseph in the prison although he had informed him what would befall him and did not remember to inform pharaoh how joseph had told him for he forgot chapter thirty nine chapter forty of the book of jubilees translated by robert charles favors dreams and their interpretation one to four elevation a marriage of joseph five to thirteen compare genesis forty one one to five seven to nine fourteen subsequent twenty five twenty nine to thirty thirty four thirty six thirty eight to forty three forty five to forty six forty nine and in those days pharaoh dreamed two dreams in one night concerning a famine which was to be in all the land and he awoke from his sleep and called all the interpreters of dreams that were in egypt and magicians and told them his two dreams and they were not able to declare them two and then the chief butler remembered joseph and spake of him to the king and he brought him forth from the prison and he told his two dreams before him three and he said before pharaoh that his two dreams were one and he said unto him seven years will come in which there will be plenty over all the land of egypt and after that seven years of famine such a famine as has not been in all the land for and now let pharaoh appoint overseers in all the land of egypt and let them store up food in every city throughout the days of the years of plenty and there will be food for the seven years of famine and the land will not perish through the famine for it will be very severe five and the lord gave joseph favour and mercy in the eyes of pharaoh and pharaoh said unto his servants we shall not find such a wise and discreet man as this man for the spirit of the lord is with him six and he appointed him the second in all his kingdom and gave him authority over all egypt and caused him to ride in the second chariot of pharaoh seven and he clothed him with byssus garments and he put a gold chain upon his neck and a herald proclaimed before him el el wa abira and he placed a ring on his hand and made him ruler over all his house and magnified him and said unto him only on the throne shall i be greater than thou eight and joseph ruled over all the land of egypt and all the princes of pharaoh and all his servants and all who did the king's business loved him for he walked in uprightness for he was without pride and arrogance and he had no respect of persons and did not accept gifts but he judged in uprightness all the people of the land nine in the land of egypt was at peace before pharaoh because of joseph for the lord was with him and gave him favour and mercy for all his generations before all those who knew him and those who heard concerning him and pharaoh's kingdom was well ordered and there was no satan and no evil person therein ten and the king called joseph's name sethantiphons and gave joseph to wife the daughter of potiphar the daughter of the priest of heliopolis the chief cook levin on the day that joseph stood before pharaoh he was thirty years old when he stood before pharaoh twelve and in that year isaac died and it came to pass as joseph had said in the interpretation of his two dreams according as he had said it there were seven years of plenty over all the land of egypt and the land of egypt produced abundantly one measure producing eighteen hundred measures thirteen and joseph gathered food into every city until they were full of corn until they could no longer count and measure it for its multitude chapter forty chapter forty one of the book of jubilees translated by robert charles judas sons and tamar one to seven Judah's incest with Tamar, 8 to 18.

Tamar bears twins, 21 to 22.

Judah forgiven because he sinned ignorantly and repented when convicted and because Tamar's marriage with his sons had not been consummated, 23 to 28.

Compare Genesis 38, 6 to 18, 20 to 26, 29 to 30, 41, 13. and in the forty-fifth jubilee in the second week and in the second year judah took for his firstborn ur a wife from the daughters of aram named tamar two but he hated and did not lie with her because his mother was of the daughters of canaan and he wished to take him a wife of the kinsfolk of his mother but judah his father would not permit him three in this ur the firstborn of judah was wicked and the lord slew him for and judah said unto onan his brother go in unto thy brother's wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her and raise up seed unto thy brother five and onan knew that the seed would not be his but his brother's only and he went into the house of his brother's wife and spilt the seed on the ground and he was wicked in the eyes of the lord and he slew him six and judah said unto tamar his daughter in law remain in thy father's house as a widow till she my son be grown up and i shall give thee to him to wife seven and he grew up but bedsuel the wife of judah did not permit her son she to marry and bedsuel the wife of judah died in the fifth year of this week eight and in the sixth year judah went up to shear his sheep at timnah and they told tamar behold thy father-in-law goeth up to timnah to shear his sheep nine and she put off her widow's clothes and put on a veil and adorned herself and sat in the gate adjoining the way to ten and as judah was going along he found her and thought her to be an harlot and he said unto her let me come in unto thee and she said unto him come in and he went in eleven and she said unto him give me my hire and he said unto her i have nothing in my hand save my ring that is on my finger and my necklace and my staff which is in my hand twelve and she said unto him give them to me until thou dost send me my hire and he said unto her i will send unto thee a kid of the goats and he gave them to her and he went in unto her and she conceived by him thirteen and judah went unto his sheep and she went to her father's house fourteen and judah sent a kid of the goats by the hand of his shepherd and a and he found her not and he asked the people of the place saying where is the harlot who was here and they said unto him there is no harlot here with us fifteen and he returned and informed him and said unto him that he had not found her i asked the people of the place and they said unto me there is no harlot here and he said let her keep them lest we become a cause of derision sixteen and when she had completed three months it was manifest that she was with child and they told judah saying behold tamar thy daughter-in-law is with child by whoredom seventeen and judah went to the house of her father and said unto her father and her brothers bring her forth and let them burn her for she hath wrought uncleanness in israel eighteen and it came to pass when they brought her forth to burn her that she sent her father-in-law the ring and the necklace and the staff saying discern whose are these for by him am i with child nineteen and judah acknowledged and said tamar is more righteous than i am and therefore let them burn her not twenty and for that reason she was not given to she and he did not again approach her twenty one and after that she bare two sons perez and in the seventh year of this second week twenty two and thereupon the seven years of fruitfulness were accomplished of which joseph spake to pharaoh twenty three and judah acknowledged that the deed which he had done was evil for he had lain with his daughter-in-law and and he esteemed it hateful in his eyes and he acknowledged that he had transgressed and gone astray for he had uncovered the skirt of his son and he began to lament and to supplicate before the lord because of his transgression twenty four and we told him in a dream that it was forgiven him because he supplicated earnestly and lamented and did not again commit it twenty five and he received forgiveness because he turned from his sin and from his ignorance for he transgressed greatly before our god and every one that acts thus every one who lies with his mother-in-law let them burn him with fire that he may burn therein for there is uncleanness and pollution upon them with fire let them burn them twenty six and do thou command the children of israel that there be no uncleanness amongst them for every one who lies with his daughter-in-law or with his mother-in-law hath wrought uncleanness with fire let them burn the man who is lame with her and likewise the woman and he will turn away wrath and punishment from israel twenty seven and unto judah we said that his two sons had not lain with her and for this reason his seed was established for a second generation and would not be rooted out twenty eight for in singleness of eye he had gone and sought for punishment mainly according to the judgment of abraham which he had commanded his sons judah had sought to burn her with fire chapter forty one chapter forty two of the book of jubilees translated by robert charles owing to the famine jacob sends his sons to egypt for corn one to four joseph recognizes them and retains simeon and requires them to bring benjamin when they returned five to twelve notwithstanding jacob's reluctance his sons take benjamin with them on their second journey and are entertained by joseph thirteen to twenty five compare genesis forty one fifty four fifty six forty two seven to nine thirteen seventeen twenty twenty four to twenty five

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