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Judah took a wife for his first-born Er, and her name was Tamar. (Genesis 38, 6)
But Er, Judah's first-born, offended Yahweh, and Yahweh killed him. (Genesis 38, 7)
But Onan, knowing that the line would not count as his, spilt his seed on the ground every time he slept with his brother's wife, to avoid providing offspring for his brother. (Genesis 38, 9)
Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, 'Go home as a widow to your father, until my son Shelah grows up,' for he was thinking, 'He must not die like his brothers.' So Tamar went home to her father. (Genesis 38, 11)
A long time passed, and then Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. After Judah had been comforted he went up to Timnah for the shearing of his sheep, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. (Genesis 38, 12)
When Tamar was told, 'Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah for the shearing of his sheep,' (Genesis 38, 13)
she changed out of her widow's clothes, wrapped a veil around her to disguise herself, and sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that, although Shelah was grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife. (Genesis 38, 14)
Judah, seeing her, took her for a prostitute, since her face was veiled. (Genesis 38, 15)
Going up to her on the road, he said, 'Here, let me sleep with you.' He did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. 'What will you give me for sleeping with you?' she asked. (Genesis 38, 16)
'What pledge shall I give you?' he asked. 'Your seal and cord and the staff you are holding,' she replied. He gave them to her and slept with her, and she conceived by him. (Genesis 38, 18)
So returning to Judah he said, 'I did not find her. What is more, the men of the place told me there had been no prostitute there.' (Genesis 38, 22)
'Let her keep the things,' Judah said, 'or we shall become a laughing-stock. At least I sent her this kid, even though you did not find her.' (Genesis 38, 23)
