Juda (patriarch)

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Juda (in Hebrew: יְהוּדָה ) is the fourth wire of Jacob and Lea.

Lea names her fourth wire Juda by recognition, in order to thank God (to have grants to him to be as much fertile): has to bring closer to the Hebrew verb להודות , lehodot, meaning to thank, recognize .

Among twelve wire of Jacob, it is distinguished with many recoveries in the text.

It is him which convinces his/her brothers to rather sell Joseph with a caravan of Ismaélites than to let it die (Genèse 37,26-27);
It is him which stands as guarantor of Benjamin near their father to be able to take it along to Egypt at the request of the viceroy (who is in fact Joseph);
It is him which proposes to the viceroy of Egypt (Joseph) to make it possible Benjamin to return at Jacob when they are shown vol.

At the time of the last blessings of Jacob to his sons, Juda is presented as a chief compared to his older brothers Ruben (who betrayed his father with Bilha), and Siméon and Lévi famous violent ones.

Chapter 38 of the Genèse is devoted to the character of Juda. It is learned there that it married in Cananéenne of which it had 3 wire: er, Onan and Chêla. Juda Marie er with a woman of the name of Thamar. Er dies and, under the terms of the law of the Lévirat, Thamar is given for woman to Onan. Onan, like his/her brother er before him, " displeases with God " and dies. Juda then refuses to apply the lévirat to the last of its sons. Thamar seeks a means of having a posterity.

Juda, party to mow its ewes, takes Thamar (which was disguised) for a prostitute and sleep with it. It falls pregnant from there. Two twin boys are born: Perets and Zérah. The King David and all the line of the Kings de Juda go down from Perets (and not of Zérah, cf Ruth 4 v18 with 22).

The character of Juda, ancestor of Christ, is reproduced on one of the stained glasses of the southernmost triforium of the cathedral of Strasbourg. According to the searchs and publications for Louis Tschaen, with the triforium are represented seventy-eight characters, including seventy-five ancestors, theoretically aligned in the order given in the Gospel of Luc defined by the Vulgate Clementine. The creative artist of the stained glass, according to the interpretation of Maurice Rosart, represented it in foot, maintaining arm left his dress raised to release the ankles, the glance directed towards the medallion which represents the sun above its right shoulder, the index right pointed on the left foot, which creates the green Rayon of Strasbourg visible with the equinoxes. The photograph represents it beside Jacob, his father.

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