“When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.”
Judah recognized them and said: she is more righteous than I, since I wouldn't give her to my son Shelah. And he did not sleep with her again. Judah's declaration — she is more righteous than I — is the most morally significant statement Judah has made. The acknowledgment of Tamar's righteousness and his own injustice is the beginning of the transformation of Judah that will culminate in Genesis 44. The application: the willingness to say she is more righteous than I is the willingness of genuine repentance. Judah names his own injustice and her greater righteousness without reservation.
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