“And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.”
At that time, Judah left his brothers and went down to stay with a man of Adullam named Hirah. The interruption of the Joseph story by the Judah-Tamar narrative is the most jarring interlude in Genesis. Judah leaves his brothers — the moral rupture follows from the sale of Joseph. The application: the narrative interruption of Genesis 38 is not an editorial accident but a theological deliberateness — the story of the covenant line's continuity through Tamar belongs here, in the account of the family's moral failure.
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