24 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!”(A)

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22 “‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman;(A) that is detestable.(B)

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“‘If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.(A)

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15 On the fourth[a] day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Coax(A) your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death.(B) Did you invite us here to steal our property?”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 14:15 Some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac; Hebrew seventh

16 The beast and the ten horns(A) you saw will hate the prostitute.(B) They will bring her to ruin(C) and leave her naked;(D) they will eat her flesh(E) and burn her with fire.(F)

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