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And he married her and slept with her. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>She conceived and gave birth to a son, and he named him Er. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>She conceived again and gave birth to a son, and she named him Onan. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then she gave birth to another son, and named him Shelah. And he was at Kezib when she gave birth to him.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now Er, Judah抯 firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so God killed him. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then Judah said to Onan, "Sleep with your brother抯 wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But Onan knew that the offspring wouldn抰 be his. So it happened when he slept with his brother抯 wife that he released his semen on the ground, so that he would not produce offspring for his brother. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And what he did was evil in the sight of God, so he killed him also. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Remain a widow in your father抯 house until my son Shelah is grown up." For he thought, "I do not want him to die too, like his brothers. "So Tamar went and lived in her father抯 house.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>After some time, Judah抯 wife, the daughter of Shua, died. And Judah finished mourning, and went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Tamar was told, saying, "Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>She took off her widow抯 clothes and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute because she had covered her face. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He went over to her by the road and said, "Please 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 you?" <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He said, "I will send you a young goat from the flock. "She said, "Will you give me something as a guarantee until you send it?" <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He said, "What kind of guarantee should 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 slept with her, and she became pregnant by him. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And she got up and left, and took off her veil, and put on her widow抯 clothing.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Judah sent the young goat by his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the guarantee back from the woman抯 hand, but he did not find her. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then he asked the men of the place, saying, "Where is the prostitute that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven抰 found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'" <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Judah said, "Let her keep the things, lest we be publicly shamed. Look, I sent this young goat, but you did not find her."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Now it happened about three months later that Judah was told, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has turned to prostitution, and now, look, she is pregnant by prostitution. "Judah said, "Bring her out, and let her be burned." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>When she was brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man who owns these I am pregnant." She also said, "Please discern whose these are梩he signet, and the cord, and the staff." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then Judah recognized them, and said, " She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." He did not sleep with her again.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>It happened when it was time for her to give birth, that look, there were twins in her womb. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>As she was in labor, one put out a hand, and the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his hand, saying, "This one came out first." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>It happened, as he drew back his hand, that look, his brother came out, and she said, "How did you break through? "So he was named Perez. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/38-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, so he was named Zerah.<p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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