About three months later Judah was told: your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant. Judah said: bring her out and have her burned to death! The hypocrisy of Judah's verdict — he condemns Tamar for exactly what he himself did, without recognizing his own involvement — is the moral crisis the narrative has been building toward. The application: the condemnation of another for the same act you committed, without self-knowledge, is the blindness that Judah is about to have removed.

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