Genesis 38:26 - Exposition

And Judah acknowledged (or discerned, ut supra, i.e. recognized) them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I ;—though Tamer was far from innocent (vide vex. 16), she was by no means as culpable as Judah— because that ( כִּי־עַל־כֵּן , for, for this cause, i.e. that so it might hap, pen to me: vide Genesis 18:5 ) I gave her not to Shelah my son. And (in token of his penitence) he knew her again no more.