THE WORD OF ELOHIM

GENESIS

Chapter 38

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chezib_of_Judah

The 7 Noahide Laws

1. Do not deny God

2. Do not blaspheme God

3. Do not murder

4. Do not engage in illicit sexual relations

5. Do not steal

6. Do not eat from a live animal

7. Create legal system of justice

Some rabbi’s teach that there were only 7 laws for humanity to observe, before the time of Moses.  Some of them teach that since the laws of Moses, all of humanity is required to observe them, unless you are Jewish.  And yet, we have 6 examples in chapter 38 that prove the laws existed and were meant to be observed, before they were documented by Moses.

“Join with your brother’s wife and do your duty by her as a brother-in-law, and provide offspring for your brother.”  

But Onan, knowing that the seed would not count as his, let it go to waste whenever he joined with his brother’s wife, so as not to provide offspring for his brother.  What he did was displeasing to Yehovah and He took his life also.  

 “Stay as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up”—for he thought, “He too might die like his brothers.”

“Here, let me sleep with you”—for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.

About three months later, Yehudah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has played the harlot; in fact, she is with child by harlotry.”  “Bring her out,” said Yehudah, “and let her be burned.”  

“She is more in the right than I, inasmuch as I did not give her to my son Shelah.”  And he was not intimate with her again.

Paragraph 3:

She replied, “Your seal and cord, and the staff which you carry.”

The pledge that Tamar ask for is an expensive request; never-the-less, Yehudah honors it.  – Defiantly a wise decision, given the circumstances in paragraph 5.  The Spirit of Elohim was involved in this transaction and Yehudah is given two sons, in place of the two that were taken from him. (Paragraph 6)