38:1 It
happened
at
that
time
that
Judah
went
down
from
his
brothers
and
turned
aside
to
a
certain
Adullamite,
whose
name
was
Hirah.
38:2 There
Judah
saw
the
daughter
of
a
certain
Canaanite
whose
name
was
Shua.
He
took
her
and
went
in
to
her,
38:3 and
she
conceived
and
bore
a
son,
and
he
called
his
name
Er.
38:4 She
conceived
again
and
bore
a
son,
and
she
called
his
name
Onan.
38:5 Yet
again
she
bore
a
son,
and
she
called
his
name
Shelah.
Judah
was
in
Chezib
when
she
bore
him.
38:6 And
Judah
took
a
wife
for
Er
his
firstborn,
and
her
name
was
Tamar.
38:7 But
Er,
Judah's
firstborn,
was
wicked
in
the
sight
of
the
LORD,
and
the
LORD
put
him
to
death.
38:8 Then
Judah
said
to
Onan,
"Go
in
to
your
brother's
wife
and
perform
the
duty
of
a
brother-in-law
to
her,
and
raise
up
offspring
for
your
brother."
38:9 But
Onan
knew
that
the
offspring
would
not
be
his.
So
whenever
he
went
in
to
his
brother's
wife
he
would
waste
the
semen
on
the
ground,
so
as
not
to
give
offspring
to
his
brother.
38:10 And
what
he
did
was
wicked
in
the
sight
of
the
LORD,
and
he
put
him
to
death
also.
38:11 Then
Judah
said
to
Tamar
his
daughter-in-law,
"Remain
a
widow
in
your
father's
house,
till
Shelah
my
son
grows
up"--for
he
feared
that
he
would
die,
like
his
brothers.
So
Tamar
went
and
remained
in
her
father's
house.
38:12 In
the
course
of
time
the
wife
of
Judah,
Shua's
daughter,
died.
When
Judah
was
comforted,
he
went
up
to
Timnah
to
his
sheepshearers,
he
and
his
friend
Hirah
the
Adullamite.
38:13 And
when
Tamar
was
told,
"Your
father-in-law
is
going
up
to
Timnah
to
shear
his
sheep,"
38:14 she
took
off
her
widow's
garments
and
covered
herself
with
a
veil,
wrapping
herself
up,
and
sat
at
the
entrance
to
Enaim,
which
is
on
the
road
to
Timnah.
For
she
saw
that
Shelah
was
grown
up,
and
she
had
not
been
given
to
him
in
marriage.
38:15 When
Judah
saw
her,
he
thought
she
was
a
prostitute,
for
she
had
covered
her
face.
38:16 He
turned
to
her
at
the
roadside
and
said,
"Come,
let
me
come
in
to
you,"
for
he
did
not
know
that
she
was
his
daughter-in-law.
She
said,
"What
will
you
give
me,
that
you
may
come
in
to
me"
38:17 He
answered,
"I
will
send
you
a
young
goat
from
the
flock."
And
she
said,
"If
you
give
me
a
pledge,
until
you
send
it--"
38:18 He
said,
"What
pledge
shall
I
give
you"
She
replied,
"Your
signet
and
your
cord
and
your
staff
that
is
in
your
hand."
So
he
gave
them
to
her
and
went
in
to
her,
and
she
conceived
by
him.
38:19 Then
she
arose
and
went
away,
and
taking
off
her
veil
she
put
on
the
garments
of
her
widowhood.
38:20 When
Judah
sent
the
young
goat
by
his
friend
the
Adullamite
to
take
back
the
pledge
from
the
woman's
hand,
he
did
not
find
her.
38:21 And
he
asked
the
men
of
the
place,
"Where
is
the
cult
prostitute
who
was
at
Enaim
at
the
roadside"
And
they
said,
"No
cult
prostitute
has
been
here."
38:22 So
he
returned
to
Judah
and
said,
"I
have
not
found
her.
Also,
the
men
of
the
place
said,
'No
cult
prostitute
has
been
here.'"
38:23 And
Judah
replied,
"Let
her
keep
the
things
as
her
own,
or
we
shall
be
laughed
at.
You
see,
I
sent
this
young
goat,
and
you
did
not
find
her."
38:24 About
three
months
later
Judah
was
told,
"Tamar
your
daughter-in-law
has
been
immoral.
Moreover,
she
is
pregnant
by
immorality."
And
Judah
said,
"Bring
her
out,
and
let
her
be
burned."
38:25 As
she
was
being
brought
out,
she
sent
word
to
her
father-in-law,
"By
the
man
to
whom
these
belong,
I
am
pregnant."
And
she
said,
"Please
identify
whose
these
are,
the
signet
and
the
cord
and
the
staff."
38:26 Then
Judah
identified
them
and
said,
"She
is
more
righteous
than
I,
since
I
did
not
give
her
to
my
son
Shelah."
And
he
did
not
know
her
again.
38:27 When
the
time
of
her
labor
came,
there
were
twins
in
her
womb.
38:28 And
when
she
was
in
labor,
one
put
out
a
hand,
and
the
midwife
took
and
tied
a
scarlet
thread
on
his
hand,
saying,
"This
one
came
out
first."
38:29 But
as
he
drew
back
his
hand,
behold,
his
brother
came
out.
And
she
said,
"What
a
breach
you
have
made
for
yourself!"
Therefore
his
name
was
called
Perez.
38:30 Afterward
his
brother
came
out
with
the
scarlet
thread
on
his
hand,
and
his
name
was
called
Zerah.