Fr. Mike talks about how God can bring great triumph from great brokenness as we read the messy story of Judah and Tamar. Today's readings are Genesis 38, Job 29-30, and Proverbs 3:28-32. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. Please note: The Bible contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.
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Hi, I'm Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.
This is day 20, so let's keep on going forward. On day 20, we're going to be reading from Genesis chapter 38, just one chapter today from Genesis, two chapters from Job, that's Job 29 and 30, and then Proverbs... chapter three, verses 28 through 32. As always, I am reading from the revised standard version, the Catholic edition, and I'm using actually the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension.
If you want to follow along in your own Bible, whether it's the Great Adventure Bible or whatever Bible you have around, you can download your Bible in a Year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. Again, that's ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. Genesis chapter 38. Genesis chapter 38.
It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and turned into a certain Adulamite whose name was Hara. There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He married her and went into her and she conceived and bore a son and he called his name Ur. Again she conceived and bore a son and she called his name Onan.
Yet again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. She was in Chizib when she bore him, and Judah took a wife for Ur his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. But Ur, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord slew him. Then Judah said to Onan, Go into your brother's wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.
But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, so when he went into his brother's wife, he spilled the semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother. And what he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord, and he slew him also.
Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in your father's house, till Shelah my son grows up, for he feared that he would die like his brothers. So Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house. In the course of time, the wife of Judah, she was daughter, died. And when Judah was comforted, he went up from Timnah to his sheep shearers, he and his friend Hira the Adulamite.
And when Tamar was told, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep, she put off her widow's garments and put on a veil, wrapping herself up and sat at the entrance to En-Aim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up and she had not been given to him in marriage. When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot, for she had covered her face.
He went over to her at the roadside and said, come, let me come into you. For he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, what will you give me that you may come into me? He answered, I will send you a kid from the flock. And she said, will you give me a pledge till you send it? He said, what pledge shall I give you?
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