put out his hand] The birth was very painfull, and perilous by the strife of the twinnes, as Chap. 25. 26. and by that God would chastise Thamar for her offence, and though she had all the paine, yet Judah was her partner in the shame, (as well as in the sinne) which was double, for two base begotten children would doe them twice as much disgrace as one alone.