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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Genesis 38 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/38.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/genesis/38-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NRSVCE</a> > Genesis 38</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/37.htm" title="Genesis 37">◄</a> Genesis 38 <a href="../genesis/39.htm" title="Genesis 39">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Judah and Tamar</span></h3><p class="chapter-2"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and settled near a certain Adullamite whose name was Hirah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; he married her and went in to her. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>She conceived and bore a son; and he named him Er. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Again she conceived and bore a son whom she named Onan. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Yet again she bore a son, and she named him Shelah. She<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-1125a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> was in Chezib when she bore him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn; her name was Tamar. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> put him to death. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her; raise up offspring for your brother.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>But since Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, he spilled his semen on the ground whenever he went in to his brother’s wife, so that he would not give offspring to his brother. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>What he did was displeasing in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and he put him to death also. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up”—for he feared that he too would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>In course of time the wife of Judah, Shua’s daughter, died; when Judah’s time of mourning was over,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-1132b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>she put off her widow’s garments, put on a veil, wrapped herself up, and sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. She saw that Shelah was grown up, yet she had not been given to him in marriage. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a prostitute, for she had covered her face. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>He went over 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?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>He answered, “I will send you a kid from the flock.” And she said, “Only if you give me a pledge, until you send it.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>He said, “What pledge shall I give you?” She replied, “Your signet and your cord, and the staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Then she got up and went away, and taking off her veil she put on the garments of her widowhood.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>When Judah sent the kid by his friend the Adullamite, to recover the pledge from the woman, he could not find her. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>He asked the townspeople, “Where is the temple prostitute who was at Enaim by the wayside?” But they said, “No prostitute has been here.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>So he returned to Judah, and said, “I have not found her; moreover the townspeople said, ‘No prostitute has been here.’” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Judah replied, “Let her keep the things as her own, otherwise we will be laughed at; you see, I sent this kid, and you could not find her.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has played the whore; moreover she is pregnant as a result of whoredom.” And Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>As she was being brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, “It was the owner of these who made me pregnant.” And she said, “Take note, please, whose these are, the signet and the cord and the staff.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>Then Judah acknowledged 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 lie with her again.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>When the time of her delivery came, there were twins in her womb. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>While she was in labor, one put out a hand; and the midwife took and bound on his hand a crimson thread, saying, “This one came out first.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>But just then he drew back his hand, and out came his brother; and she said, “What a breach you have made for yourself!” Therefore he was named Perez.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-1149c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>Afterward his brother came out with the crimson thread on his hand; and he was named Zerah.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-1150d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 38:5">Genesis 38:5</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Heb <i>He</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 38:12">Genesis 38:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>when Judah was comforted</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 38:29">Genesis 38:29</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>A breach</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 38:30">Genesis 38:30</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>Brightness</i>; perhaps alluding to the crimson thread</span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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