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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1At that time Judah left his brothers and settled near an Adullamite named Hirah. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite named Shua; he took her as a wife and slept with her. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3She conceived and gave birth to a son, and he named him Er. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4She conceived again, gave birth to a son, and named him Onan. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5She gave birth to another son and named him Shelah. It was at Chezib that she gave birth to him. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Now Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the LORD's sight, and the LORD put him to death. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Then Judah said to Onan, "Sleep with your brother's wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and produce offspring for your brother." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, so whenever he slept with his brother's wife, he released his semen on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10What he did was evil in the LORD's sight, so He put him to death also. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Remain a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up." For he thought, "He might die too, like his brothers." So Tamar went to live in her father's house. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12After a long time Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to Timnah to the sheepshearers. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep." |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14So she took off her widow's clothes, veiled her face, covered herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He went over to her and said, "Come, let me sleep with you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me for sleeping with me?"" |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I will send you a young goat from my flock," he replied. But she said, "Only if you leave something with me until you send it."" |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18What should I give you?" he asked. She answered, "Your signet ring, your cord, and the staff in your hand." So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she got pregnant by him. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19She got up and left, then removed her veil and put her widow's clothes back on. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get back the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21He asked the men of the place, "Where is the cult prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?"" There has been no cult prostitute here," they answered. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22So the Adullamite returned to Judah, saying, "I couldn't find her, and furthermore, the men of the place said, 'There has been no cult prostitute here.'" |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Judah replied, "Let her keep the items for herself; otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send this young goat, but you couldn't find her." |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24About three months later Judah was told, "Your daughter-in-law, Tamar, has been acting like a prostitute, and now she is pregnant."" Bring her out!" Judah said. "Let her be burned to death!" |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25As she was being brought out, she sent her father-in-law this message: "I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong." And she added, "Examine them. Whose signet ring, cord, and staff are these?" |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Judah recognized them and said, "She is more in the right than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not know her intimately again. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27When the time came for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand, and the midwife took it and tied a scarlet thread around it, announcing, "This one came out first." |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29But then he pulled his hand back, and his brother came out. Then she said, "You have broken out first!" So he was named Perez. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Then his brother, who had the scarlet thread tied to his hand, came out, and was named Zerah. |
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