10. What he did displeased the Lord; therefore He killed him also.
11. Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow at your father’s house until Shelah my son grows up.” For he thought, “He may die also, just as his brothers did.” So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
12. As time went on, the daughter of Shua, Judah’s wife, died. After Judah was consoled, he went up to his sheepshearers in Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
13. It was told to Tamar, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
14. She took off her widow’s clothing, covered herself with a veil, wrapped herself up, and sat in an open place, which is by the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him as his wife.
15. When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, because she had covered her face.
16. He turned to her by the road and said, “Come now, let me have relations with you” (for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law).And she said, “What will you give me, so that you may have relations with me?”
17. And he said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.”And she said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”
18. And he said, “What pledge should I give you?”And she said, “Your signet, your bracelets, and your staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her and had relations with her, and she conceived by him.
19. She arose and went away, and taking off her veil, she put on her widow’s clothing.