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Genesis 38
⁷ But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord took his life.
⁸ Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform your duty as a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother."
⁹ Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother’s wife, he wasted his seed on the ground in order not to give offspring to his brother.
¹⁰ But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord; so He took his life also.
¹¹ 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 thought, "I am afraid that he too may die like his brothers." So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
¹² Now after a considerable time Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and when the time of mourning was ended, Judah went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
¹³ It was told to Tamar, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
¹⁴ So she removed her widow’s garments and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gateway of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.
¹⁵ When Judah saw her, he thought she was a harlot, for she had covered her face.
¹⁶ So he turned aside to her by the road, and said, "Here now, let me come in to you"; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"
¹⁷ He said, therefore, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." She said, moreover, "Will you give a pledge until you send it?"