2. There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shua, and he took her and had relations with her.
3. She conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.
4. She conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name Onan.
5. She again conceived and bore a son and called his name Shelah. He was at Kezib when she bore him.
6. Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.
7. But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord killed him.
8. Then Judah said to Onan, “Go have relations with your brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up descendants for your brother.”
9. But Onan knew that the descendant would not be his, so when he had relations with his brother’s wife, he let his semen go on the ground, so that he would not give a descendant to his brother.
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?”