- 猶大心裡說、恐怕示拉也死、像他兩個哥哥一樣、就對他兒婦他瑪說、你去、在你父親家裡守寡、等我兒子示拉長大.他瑪就回去住在他父親家裡。
- 過了許久、猶大的妻子書亞的女兒死了、猶大得了安慰、就和他朋友亞杜蘭人希拉上亭拿去、到他剪羊毛的人那裡。
- 有人告訴他瑪說、你的公公上亭拿剪羊毛去了。
- 他瑪見示拉已經長大、還沒有娶他為妻、就脫了他作寡婦的衣裳、用帕子蒙著臉、又遮住身體、坐在亭拿路上的伊拿印城門口。
- 猶大看見他、以為是妓女、因為他蒙著臉。
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- Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Live as a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up." For he thought, "He may die too, just like his brothers." So Tamar went to live in her father's house.
- After a long time Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up to Timnah, to the men who were shearing his sheep, and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went with him.
- When Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,"
- she took off her widow's clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.
- When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
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