Teks -- Genesis 38:25 (NET)

38:25 While they were bringing her out, she sent word to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these belong.” Then she said, “Identify the one to whom the seal, cord, and staff belong.”

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Clarke: Gen 38:25 - The signet

The signet - חתמת chothemeth , properly a seal, or instrument with which impressions were made to ascertain property, etc. These exist in all countries

Clarke: Gen 38:25 - Bracelets

Bracelets - פתילים pethilim , from פתל pathal , to twist, wreathe, twine, may signify a girdle or a collar by which precedency, etc., might be indicated; not the muslin, silk, or linen wreath of his turban, as Mr. Harmer has conjectured

Clarke: Gen 38:25 - Staff

Staff - מטה matteh , either what we would call a common walking stick, or the staff which was the ensign of his tribe.

TSK: Gen 38:25 - Discern

Discern : Gen 38:18, Gen 37:32; Psa 50:21; Jer 2:26; Rom 2:16; 1Co 4:5; Rev 20:12

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Haydock: Gen 38:25 - Execution

Execution. The Rabbin say she was to be marked with a hot iron. If she was to die, before she was delivered, God prevented the cruel sentence from taking effect. (Haydock) ---

Many nations have punished adultery with fire. Macrinus, the Roman emperor, ordered the culprits to be tied together and thrown into the flames. (Capitolin.) ---

Moses commanded the daughters of priests, who should be detected in this crime, to be given to the flames, (Leviticus xxi. 9,) and others to be stoned; (Leviticus xx. 10,) whence the Rabbin have concluded, that Thamar was a priest's daughter. (Calmet)

Gill: Gen 38:25 - 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

When she was brought forth,.... From her father's house, not to the place of execution, or in order to be burnt, but to the court of judicature, in order to take tier trial:

she sent to her father in law, saying, by the man whose these are, am I with child; she sent a messenger to him, and by him the signet, bracelets, and staff, be they what they may, she had received from him as a pledge for the kid he promised her; and ordered the messenger to say, at the same time he showed him these things, that she was with child by the person to whom they belonged; which was a very modest way of laying it to his charge, and yet very striking and convincing:

and she said; by the messenger she sent:

discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff; which were the things given her as a pledge till she received the kid, the hire she was to have for his lying with her.