17. and he saith, `I--I send a kid of the goats from the flock.' And she saith, `Dost thou give a pledge till thou send [it]?'
18. and he saith, `What [is] the pledge that I give to thee?' and she saith, `Thy seal, and thy ribbon, and thy staff which [is] in thy hand;' and he giveth to her, and goeth in unto her, and she conceiveth to him;
19. and she riseth, and goeth, and turneth aside her vail from off her, and putteth on the garments of her widowhood.
20. And Judah sendeth the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the hand of the woman, and he hath not found her.
21. And he asketh the men of her place, saying, `Where [is] the separated one--she in Enayim, by the way?' and they say, `There hath not been in this [place] a separated one.'
22. And he turneth back unto Judah, and saith, `I have not found her; and the men of the place also have said, There hath not been in this [place] a separated one,'
23. and Judah saith, `Let her take to herself, lest we become despised; lo, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.'
24. And it cometh to pass about three months [after], that it is declared to Judah, saying, `Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath committed fornication; and also, lo, she hath conceived by fornication:' and Judah saith, `Bring her out--and she is burnt.'
25. She is brought out, and she hath sent unto her husband's father, saying, `To a man whose these [are], I [am] pregnant;' and she saith, `Discern, I pray thee, whose [are] these--the seal, and the ribbons, and the staff.'
26. And Judah discerneth and saith, `She hath been more righteous than I, because that I did not give her to Shelah my son;' and he hath not added to know her again.
27. And it cometh to pass in the time of her bearing, that lo, twins [are] in her womb;
28. and it cometh to pass in her bearing, that [one] giveth out a hand, and the midwife taketh and bindeth on his hand a scarlet thread, saying, `This hath come out first.'
29. And it cometh to pass as he draweth back his hand, that lo, his brother hath come out, and she saith, `What! thou hast broken forth--on thee [is] the breach;' and he calleth his name Pharez;