Genesis 38:13
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New International Version (©2011)
When Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,"

New Living Translation (©2007)
Someone told Tamar, "Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."

English Standard Version (©2001)
And when Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
It was told to Tamar, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."

International Standard Version (©2012)
"Look!" somebody reported to Tamar, "Your father-in-law is going to Timnah to shear his sheep."

NET Bible (©2006)
Tamar was told, "Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
As soon as Tamar was told that her father-in-law was on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold your father-in-law goes up to Timnah to shear his sheep.

American King James Version
And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold your father in law goes up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

American Standard Version
And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it was told Thamar that her father in law was come up to Thamnas to shear his sheep.

Darby Bible Translation
And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.

English Revised Version
And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father in law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep.

Webster's Bible Translation
And it was told to Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnath, to shear his sheep.

World English Bible
It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."

Young's Literal Translation
And it is declared to Tamar, saying, 'Lo, thy husband's father is going up to Timnath to shear his flock;'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

38:1-30 The profligate conduct of Judah and his family. - This chapter gives an account of Judah and his family, and such an account it is, that it seems a wonder that of all Jacob's sons, our Lord should spring out of Judah, Heb 7:14. But God will show that his choice is of grace and not of merit, and that Christ came into the world to save sinners, even the chief. Also, that the worthiness of Christ is of himself, and not from his ancestors. How little reason had the Jews, who were so called from this Judah, to boast as they did, Joh 8:41. What awful examples the Lord proclaims in his punishments, of his utter displeasure at sin! Let us seek grace from God to avoid every appearance of sin. And let that state of humbleness to which Jesus submitted, when he came to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself, in appointing such characters as those here recorded, to be his ancestors, endear the Redeemer to our hearts.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 13. - And it was told Tamer, saying, Behold thy father in-law - חָם, a father-in-law, from חָמָה, unused, to join together. Of. γαμβρός for γαμερός, a son-in-law, or generally one connected lay marriage, from γαμέω - goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And it was told Tamar,.... By some of her neighbours, or by some of Judah's family:

saying, behold, thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep; which might be told her as an indifferent thing, without any design in it; but she took notice of it, and it gave her an opportunity she wanted.

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Judah and Tamar
…12And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. 13And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold your father in law goes up to Timnath to shear his sheep. 14And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him to wife. …

Joshua 15:10 Then it curved westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, ran along the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Kesalon), continued down to Beth Shemesh and crossed to Timnah.
Joshua 15:57 Kain, Gibeah and Timnah--ten towns and their villages.
Judges 14:1 Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman.
1 Samuel 25:2 A certain man in Maon, who had property there at Carmel, was very wealthy. He had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
1 Chronicles 2:4 Judah's daughter-in-law Tamar bore Perez and Zerah to Judah. He had five sons in all.