Re: Cream-filled Danish: Prostitutes offer free sex -
12-07-2009, 05:44 PM
For all those travelling to Copenhagen (83 and rising so far on the Landover Jet) can I please remind you to read Ge:38:13: to 26, which sets the Godly scene.
Judah buys a wife, Tamar, for his son Er, who is then slain by The Lord. Judah instructs Onan to marry Tamar. Onan is not please with this idea and “spills his seed upon the ground.” Thus The Lord slew Onan as well. (There’s a lesson for young men here.) Judah is now running out of sons but has a young one call Shelah. So he tells Tamar to wait in her father’s house until Shelah is old enough (probably around 12).
Tamar did this but even when Shelah became a man, he was not given Tamar.
After some years, Judah’s daughter died and, to find solitude he went off to see some sheepshearing. Now Tamar heard of this and took off her widows clothes and dressed as a harlot, a veil covering her face. When Judah passed by her, he thought her to be a prostitute, so he asked her how much she charged.
It turned out that her price was a goat and, not having a goat immediately to hand, Judah gave her his ring as a deposit. And “went in unto her.” He later came back with the goat but Tamar had gone.
Tamar became pregnant as a result, and three months later was dragged out to be burned as a harlot. However, Tamar now produces Judah’s ring, to which Judah commented, Ge:38:26: And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
Morals: 1. we see the delightfully clear reasoning as to why prostitutes should be burned (or not.) 2. Always carry cash (or a goat.)
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