1 In die tyd het Juda afgetrek, van sy broers af weg, en uitgedraai na 'n man van Adullam met die naam van Hira.
2 En Juda het daar die dogter van 'n Kana„nitiese man gesien met die naam van Sua; en hy het met haar getrou en by haar ingegaan.
3 En sy het bevrug geword en 'n seun gebaar, en sy het hom Er genoem.
4 Daarna het sy weer bevrug geword en 'n seun gebaar en hom Onan genoem.
5 En sy het nog weer 'n seun gebaar en hom Sela genoem; en hy was in Kesib toe sy hom gebaar het.
6 En Juda het vir Er, sy eersgeborene, 'n vrou geneem, en haar naam was Tamar.
7 Maar Er, die eersgeborene van Juda, het die HERE mishaag. Daarom het die HERE hom laat sterwe.
8 Toe sê Juda vir Onan: Gaan in by die vrou van jou broer en sluit die swaershuwelik met haar en verwek vir jou broer 'n nageslag.
9 Maar Onan het geweet dat die nageslag nie syne sou wees nie; daarom het hy, elke keer as hy by die vrou van sy broer ingaan, dit op die grond verderwe om vir sy broer geen nageslag te gee nie.
10 En dit was verkeerd in die oë van die HERE wat hy gedoen het; daarom het Hy hom ook laat sterwe.
11 Toe sê Juda vir Tamar, sy skoondogter: Bly 'n weduwee in die huis van jou vader totdat my seun Sela groot is. Want hy het gedink: Anders sterwe hy ook soos sy broers! So het Tamar dan gaan woon in die huis van haar vader.
12 En n verloop van geruime tyd het die dogter van Sua, die vrou van Juda, gesterwe. En toe Juda klaar getreur het, het hy opgegaan na die skeerders van sy kleinvee, na Timna toe, hy en sy vriend Hira, die Adullamiet.
13 En hulle het Tamar te kenne gegee en gesê: Kyk, jou skoonvader gaan op na Timna om sy kleinvee te skeer.
14 Toe trek sy die klere van haar weduweeskap uit en bedek haar met 'n sluier en draai haar toe; en sy het gaan sit by die ingang van Enaim wat op die pad na Timna lê. Want sy het gesien dat Sela groot geword het, maar sy was aan hom nie as vrou gegee nie.
15 Toe Juda haar sien, het hy haar vir 'n hoer gehou, omdat sy haar gesig toegebind het;
16 en hy het na haar uitgedraai by die pad en gesê: Kom tog, laat my by jou ingaan; want hy het nie geweet dat dit sy skoondogter was nie. En sy vra: Wat sal jy my gee as jy by my ingaan?
17 En hy antwoord: Ek sal jou 'n boklam van die kleinvee af stuur. Toe sê sy: As jy 'n pand gee totdat jy dit stuur.
18 En hy sê: Wat is die pand wat ek jou moet gee? Toe antwoord sy: Jou seëlring met die bandjie en jou staf wat in jou hand is. Hy gee dit toe aan haar en gaan by haar in, en sy het by hom swanger geword.
19 En sy het opgestaan en weggegaan en haar sluier afgehaal en die klere van haar weduweeskap aangetrek.
20 En Juda het die boklam gestuur deur middel van sy vriend, die Adullamiet, om die pand uit die hand van die vrou te gaan haal. Maar hy het haar nie gevind nie.
21 Toe vra hy die mense van haar woonplek: Waar is daardie hoer wat in Enaim by die pad was? En hulle antwoord: Hier was geen hoer nie.
22 Daarop gaan hy na Juda terug met die berig: Ek het haar nie gevind nie. En die mense van die plek het ook gesê: Hier was geen hoer nie.
23 Toe sê Juda: Laat sy dit hou, dat ons nie 'n bespotting word nie. Kyk, ek het hierdie boklam gestuur, maar jy het haar nie gevind nie.
24 N omtrent drie maande het hulle Juda laat weet en gesê: Tamar, jou skoondogter, het gehoereer, en sy is ook swanger deur hoerery! En Juda sê: Bring haar uit, dat sy verbrand kan word.
25 Terwyl sy uitgebring word, laat sy haar skoonvader dit weet: By die man aan wie hierdie dinge behoort, is ek swanger. En sy het gesê: Kyk tog mooi aan wie hierdie seëlring en bandjies en staf behoort.
26 En Juda het dit herken en gesê: Sy het reg teenoor my, want ek het haar mos nie aan my seun Sela gegee nie. En hy het haar verder nie meer beken nie.
27 En toe sy sou baar, was daar 'n tweeling in haar skoot.
28 En terwyl sy baar, het een die hand uitgesteek; en die vroedvrou het dit gegryp en 'n rooi draad om sy hand gebind en gesê: Hierdie een is eerste gebore.
29 Maar toe hy sy hand teruggetrek het, word sy broer gebore! En sy sê: Hoe kragtig het jy deurgebreek! En hulle het hom Peres genoem.
30 En daarna is sy broer gebore aan wie se hand die rooi draad was. En hulle het hom Serag genoem.
1 Now at that time, Judah went away from his brothers and became the friend of a man of Adullam named Hirah.
2 And there he saw the daughter of a certain man of Canaan named Shua, and took her as his wife.
3 And she gave birth to a son, and he gave him the name Er.
4 And again she gave birth to a son, and he gave him the name Onan.
5 Then she had another son, to whom she gave the name Shelah; she was at Chezib when the birth took place.
6 And Judah took a wife for his first son Er, and her name was Tamar.
7 Now Er, Judah's first son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death.
8 Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife and do what it is right for a husband's brother to do; make her your wife and get offspring for your brother.
9 But Onan, seeing that the offspring would not be his, went in to his brother's wife, but let his seed go on to the earth, so that he might not get offspring for his brother.
10 And what he did was evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death, like his brother.
11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.
12 And after a time, Bath-shua, Judah's wife, came to her end; and after Judah was comforted for her loss, he went to Timnah, where they were cutting the wool of his sheep, and his friend Hirah of Adullam went with him.
13 And when Tamar had news that her father-in-law was going up to Timnah to the wool-cutting,
14 She took off her widow's clothing, and covering herself with her veil, she took her seat near Enaim on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was now a man, but she had not been made his wife.
15 When Judah saw her he took her to be a loose woman of the town, because her face was covered.
16 And turning to her by the roadside, he said to her, Let me come in to you; for he had no idea that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give me as my price?
17 And he said, I will give you a young goat from the flock. And she said, What will you give me as a sign till you send it?
18 And he said, What would you have? And she said, Your ring and its cord and the stick in your hand. So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she became with child by him.
19 Then she got up and went away and took off her veil and put on her widow's clothing.
20 Then Judah sent his friend Hirah with the young goat, to get back the things which he had given as a sign to the woman: but she was not there.
21 And he put questions to the men of the place, saying, Where is the loose woman who was in Enaim by the wayside? And they said, There was no such woman there.
22 So he went back to Judah, and said, I have not seen her, and the men of the place say that there is no such woman there.
23 And Judah said, Let her keep the things, so that we may not be shamed; I sent the young goat, but you did not see the woman.
24 Now about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned.
25 And while she was being taken out, she sent word to her father-in-law, saying, The man whose property these things are, is the father of my child: say then, whose are this ring and this cord and this stick?
26 Then Judah said openly that they were his, and said, She is more upright than I am, for I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he had no more connection with her.
27 And when the time came for her to give birth, it was clear that there were two children in her body.
28 And while she was in the act of giving birth, one of them put out his hand; and the woman who was with her put a red thread round his hand, saying, This one came out first.
29 But then he took his hand back again, and his brother came first to birth: and the woman said, What an opening you have made for yourself! So he was named Perez.
30 And then his brother came out, with the red thread round his hand, and he was named Zerah.