Genesis 38:24 meaning and explanation

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, Berean Standard Bible

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Judah has returned to his own town after visiting Timnah, where he unknowingly slept with Tamar, his widowed daughter-in-law. Word reaches him that she is pregnant, and he pronounces the harshest sentence, burning, without pausing to ask who the father is.

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