38:1 Later on
and stayed with someone
from Adullam named Hirah.
38:2 There
from
He married her and stayed with her.
38:3 She later became pregnant
and brought forth a son
who was named Er.
38:4 She again gave birth to a son
and named him Onan.
38:5 She gave birth to another son
and named him Shelah.
She gave birth to him at Kezib.
38:6 Then Judah found a wife for Er
his firstborn and Tmar was her name.
38:7 But Judah's firstborn Er
was displeasing to Yahweh
and he passed away.
38:8 Then Judah said to Onan:
Lie with with your brother's wife.
Marry her and raise her children
for your brother.
38:9 But Onan knew the offspring
should not be his.
So when he did lie with his brother's wife
he spilled his seed on the ground
so he would not provide it for his brother.
38:10 This was not pleasing to Yahweh
and he also passed away.
38:11 Then Judah said to daughter-in-law Tamar:
Remain a widow
in your father's household
until my son Shelah is grown.
Otherwise he may die
like his brothers.
Then Tamar went to live
in her father's household.
38:12 After some time Shua’s daughter
and
Once
he went to Timnah
to the men who sheared his sheep.
His friend Hirah the Adullamite went with him.
38:13 Then Tamar was told:
Look your father-in-law it going to Timnah
to shear his sheep.
38:14 So she removed her widow's clothing
and covered herself with a veil
and wrapped herself.
Then she sat at the entrance to Enaim
which is on the road to Timnah.
For she saw Shelah had grown
but she was not given to him to marry.
38:15 When Judah saw her there
he assumed she was a prostitute
as she had covered her face.
38:16 He turned to her as he went by
and asked her if he could lie with her
not realizing she was his daughter-in-law.
She replied:
What will you pay me
to sleep with you?
38:17 He replied:
I'll send you over a goat from my flock.
She asked him:
Will you give me as security
until you send it?
38:18 He asked her:
What kind of security do you want?
She replied:
Your seal and its wire
and that staff you are holding.
Then he gave them to her
and slept with her
and she became pregnant by him.
38:19 After she got up and left
she removed her vail
and put on her widow's clothes.
38:20 Once Judah sent the goat
through his friend the Adullamite man
to get his security back from the woman
but he could not find her.
38:21 He then asked the men there:
Where is the prostitute who stood
by the side of the road?
They replied:
There was no prostitute here.
38:22 So the man returned to
I didn't find her.
The men of the area said
there was no prostitute there.
38:23 Then Judah said:
Let her keep what she was given
or we will be shamed.
I did send her the goat
but you didn't find her.
38:24 Then about three months later
Your daughter-in-law Tamar
pretended to be a prostitute
and now look, she is pregnant.
Go get her and bring her in.
38:25 As she was being brought in
she relayed a message to her father-in-law:
I am with child by the man who owns these.
Just look, do you recognize
whose seal, wire and staff these are?
38:26
She is more justified than I am
since I didn’t my son Shelah to her.
38:27 Later when she gave birth
they discovered she had been carrying twins.
38:28 Later as she gave birth
one of them reached out his hand
and the midwife tied a scarlet thread
around his wrist declaring that
this one came out first.
38:29 As soon as he pulled his hand back
out came his brother so she said:
How did you break through the breach?
So he was named Perez (broken out).
38:30 Then his brother with the scarlet thread
on his wrist emerged.
So he was named Zerah (scarlet).
