• 1. עדלם ‛ ǎdûllâm, Adullam, “righteousness.” חירה chı̂yrâh, Chirah, “nobility?”

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What will you give me, etc. Tamar did not wish to profit from prostituting herself, but to have a certain pledge, so that she might boast …

And he turned unto her by the way Which led to her; he turned out of the way in which he was to that where she sat; and v…

This chapter gives an account of Judah and his family, and it is such an account that it seems a wonder that of all Jacob's sons, our Lord would sp…