The Big Story | Matthew - Tamar & Rahab: Courage at the Margins
Genesis 38:24–26 / Joshua 2:8–13 | ~9 min
Matthew's genealogy includes four women no one expected to see there. Today we meet the first two — a Canaanite woman who refused to be written out of the story, and a woman of Jericho who staked everything on a God she'd only heard about from a distance.
Key takeaways:
Tamar acted within legitimate customs when Judah abandoned his responsibility — and Judah himself declared, "She is more righteous than I"
Rahab, living inside an enemy city, heard about Israel's God and chose to act on that belief at great personal risk
Both women were Gentiles, both…
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