Judah (patriarch)

All 26 verses in Genesis, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Genesis

• Genesis 29:35

  And once more she conceived and gave birth to a son and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.

• Genesis 35:23

  The sons of Leah were Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

• Genesis 37:26

  Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

• Genesis 38:1

  About that time, Judah left his brothers and settled near a man named Hirah, an Adullamite.

• Genesis 38:2

  There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her as a wife and slept with her.

• Genesis 38:6

  Now Judah acquired a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

• Genesis 38:7

  But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; so the LORD put him to death.

• Genesis 38:8

  Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”

• Genesis 38:11

  Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

• Genesis 38:12

  After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.

• Genesis 38:15

  When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.

• Genesis 38:20

  Now when Judah sent his friend Hirah the Adullamite with the young goat to collect the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.

• Genesis 38:22

  So Hirah returned to Judah and said, “I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, ‘No shrine prostitute has been here.’”

• Genesis 38:23

  “Let her keep the items,” Judah replied. “Otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you could not find her.”

• Genesis 38:24

  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 38:26

  Judah recognized the items and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.

• Genesis 43:3

  But Judah replied, “The man solemnly warned us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’

• Genesis 43:8

  And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.

• Genesis 44:14

  When Judah and his brothers arrived at Joseph’s house, he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him.

• Genesis 44:16

  “What can we say to my lord?” Judah replied. “How can we plead? How can we justify ourselves? God has exposed the iniquity of your servants. We are now my lord’s slaves—both we and the one who was found with the cup.”

• Genesis 44:18

  Then Judah approached Joseph and said, “Sir, please let your servant speak personally to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are equal to Pharaoh himself.

• Genesis 46:12

  The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.

• Genesis 46:28

  Now Jacob had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. When Jacob’s family arrived in the land of Goshen,

• Genesis 49:8

  Judah, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down to you.

• Genesis 49:9

  Judah is a young lion— my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?

• Genesis 49:10

  The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.

Events the dataset lists Judah (patriarch) as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

1. c. 1755 BC
   Birth of JudahGenesis 29:35
2. c. 1728 BC
   Joseph sold to EgyptGenesis 37:3–36 · at Egypt
3. c. 1721 BC
   Birth of PerezGenesis 38:29
4. c. 1708 BC
   7 years of famineGenesis 41:54–43:34
5. c. 1706 BC
   Joseph's brothers return to EgyptGenesis 43:1–45:28 · at Egypt

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.