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Episode 27 – Judah and Tamar: The Scandal in the Family Line – Genesis 38
Between Joseph's pit and Joseph's prison, Genesis pauses to tell a very different story:
Judah drifts from his family, loses two sons to their ownwickedness, and breaks his promise to his widowed daughter-in-law Tamar out of fear.
Tamar takes matters into her own hands, disguising herself at a roadside to secure, through deception, the justice Judah denied her honestly.
When her pregnancy exposes them both, Judah's own hypocrisy is laid bare — and, remarkably, he admits it: ”She is more righteous than I.”
The twins born to Tamar, Perez and Zerah, echo Jacob and Esau's own birth struggle, and Perez's name will resurface centuries later in the genealogy of King David, and of Jesus Himself.
This episode traces a scandalous family story that Scripture never hides, and shows how grace has always worked through broken history rather than around it, before previewing next week's return to Joseph in Potiphar's house.
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