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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Phares
Matthew and Luke both list Perez, son of Judah and Tamar, in the genealogy of Jesus under this Greek spelling.
Matthew and Luke both list Perez, son of Judah and Tamar, in the genealogy of Jesus under this Greek spelling.
Phares is the Greek form of Perez, listed as an ancestor of Jesus in the genealogies of both Matthew (1:3) and Luke (3:33). He was the son of Judah and Tamar, born in the unusual circumstances recounted in Genesis 38, and became the founder of one of Judah's leading clans; Boaz and eventually David descended from him (Ruth 4:18-22). His prominent place in two independent genealogies of Jesus underlines how central the Judah-Tamar line was reckoned in Israel's royal ancestry.
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- Matthew 1:3
- Luke 3:33
