Feb.
7
Genesis
38
Gen
38:1 It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his
brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
Gen
38:2 Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name
was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.
Gen
38:3 She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.
Gen
38:4 She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.
Gen
38:5 She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at
Chezib, when she bore him.
Gen
38:6 Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was
Tamar.
Gen
38:7 Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh.
Yahweh killed him.
Gen
38:8 Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and
perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to
your brother."
Gen
38:9 Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when
he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground,
lest he should give seed to his brother.
Gen
38:10 The thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he
killed him also.
Gen
38:11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a
widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;"
for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar
went and lived in her father's house.
Gen
38:12 After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died.
Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he
and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
Gen
38:13 It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is
going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
Gen
38:14 She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered
herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of
Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was
grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.
Gen
38:15 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for
she had covered her face.
Gen
38:16 He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let
me come in to you," for he didn't know that she was his
daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may
come in to me?"
Gen
38:17 He said, "I will send you a kid of the goats from the
flock." She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you
send it?"
Gen
38:18 He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She said,
"Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your
hand." He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she
conceived by him.
Gen
38:19 She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and
put on the garments of her widowhood.
Gen
38:20 Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend, the
Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he
didn't find her.
Gen
38:21 Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the
prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There
has been no prostitute here."
Gen
38:22 He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; and
also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'
"
Gen
38:23 Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold,
I sent this kid, and you haven't found her."
Gen
38:24 It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah,
saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute;
and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah
said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."
Gen
38:25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law,
saying, "By the man, whose these are, I am with child." She
also said, "Please discern whose are these--the signet, and the
cords, and the staff."
Gen
38:26 Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous
than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son." He knew
her again no more.
Gen
38:27 It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins
were in her womb.
Gen
38:28 When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took
and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out
first."
Gen
38:29 It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his
brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for
yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez.
Gen
38:30 Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on
his hand, and his name was called Zerah.