- 犹大心里说,恐怕示拉也死,像他两个哥哥一样,就对他儿妇他玛说,你去,在你父亲家里守寡,等我儿子示拉长大。他玛就回去,住在她父亲家里。
- 过了许久,犹大的妻子书亚的女儿死了。犹大得了安慰,就和他朋友亚杜兰人希拉上亭拿去,到他剪羊毛的人那里。
- 有人告诉他玛说,你的公公上亭拿剪羊毛去了。
- 他玛见示拉已经长大,还没有娶她为妻,就脱了她作寡妇的衣裳,用帕子蒙着脸,又遮住身体,坐在亭拿路上的伊拿印城门口。
- 犹大看见她,以为是妓女,因为她蒙着脸。
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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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