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

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Go in unto thy brother’s wife.—We learn from this that the law of the Levirate, by which the brother of the dead…

Go in unto thy brother’s wife. Although no law had previously been prescribed concerning a surviving brother marrying his deceased brother…

And Judah said to Onan
Some time after his brother's death: go in to your brother's wife, and marry her<…

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…