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1About that time, Judah separated from his brothers and hooked up with a man in Adullam named Hirah.

2While there, Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite named Shua. He married her, they went to bed,

3she became pregnant and had a son named Er.

4She got pregnant again and had a son named Onan.

5She had still another son; she named this one Shelah. They were living at Kezib when she had him.

6Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn. Her name was Tamar.

7But Judah's firstborn, Er, grievously offended GOD and GOD took his life.

8So Judah told Onan, "Go and sleep with your brother's widow; it's the duty of a brother-in-law to keep your brother's line alive."

9But Onan knew that the child wouldn't be his, so whenever he slept with his brother's widow he spilled his semen on the ground so he wouldn't produce a child for his brother.

10GOD was much offended by what he did and also took his life.

11So Judah stepped in and told his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Live as a widow at home with your father until my son Shelah grows up." He was worried that Shelah would also end up dead, just like his brothers. So Tamar went to live with her father.

12Time passed. Judah's wife, Shua's daughter, died. When the time of mourning was over, Judah with his friend Hirah of Adullam went to Timnah for the sheep shearing.

13Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law has gone to Timnah to shear his sheep."

14She took off her widow's clothes, put on a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim which is on the road to Timnah. She realized by now that even though Shelah was grown up, she wasn't going to be married to him.

15Judah saw her and assumed she was a prostitute since she had veiled her face.

16He left the road and went over to her. He said, "Let me sleep with you." He had no idea that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you pay me?"

17"I'll send you," he said, "a kid goat from the flock." She said, "Not unless you give me a pledge until you send it."

18"So what would you want in the way of a pledge?" She said, "Your personal seal-and-cord and the staff you carry." He handed them over to her and slept with her. And she got pregnant.

19She then left and went home. She removed her veil and put her widow's clothes back on.

20Judah sent the kid goat by his friend from Adullam to recover the pledge from the woman. But he couldn't find her.

21He asked the men of that place, "Where's the prostitute that used to sit by the road here near Enaim?" They said, "There's never been a prostitute here."

22He went back to Judah and said, "I couldn't find her. The men there said there never has been a prostitute there."

23Judah said, "Let her have it then. If we keep looking, everyone will be poking fun at us. I kept my part of the bargain--I sent the kid goat but you couldn't find her."

24Three months or so later, Judah was told, "Your daughter-in-law has been playing the whore--and now she's a pregnant whore." Judah yelled, "Get her out here. Burn her up!"

25As they brought her out, she sent a message to her father-in-law, "I'm pregnant by the man who owns these things. Identify them, please. Who's the owner of the seal-and-cord and the staff?"

26Judah saw they were his. He said, "She's in the right; I'm in the wrong--I wouldn't let her marry my son Shelah." He never slept with her again.

27When her time came to give birth, it turned out that there were twins in her womb.

28As she was giving birth, one put his hand out; the midwife tied a red thread on his hand, saying, "This one came first."

29But then he pulled it back and his brother came out. She said, "Oh! A breakout!" So she named him Perez (Breakout).

30Then his brother came out with the red thread on his hand. They named him Zerah (Bright).


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