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9001 New Heart English Bible — Genesis 38:2
2 There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite whose name was Shua. And he married her and slept with her.
9002 New Heart English Bible — Genesis 38:3
3 She conceived and gave birth to a son, and he named him Er.
9003 New Heart English Bible — Genesis 38:4
4 She conceived again and gave birth to a son, and she named him Onan.
9004 New Heart English Bible — Genesis 38:5
5 Then she gave birth to another son, and named him Shelah. And he was at Kezib when she gave birth to him.
9005 New Heart English Bible — Genesis 38:6
6 And Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
9006 New Heart English Bible — Genesis 38:7
7 Now Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so God killed him.
9007 New Heart English Bible — Genesis 38:8
8 Then Judah said to Onan, "Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother."
9008 New Heart English Bible — Genesis 38:9
9 But Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his. So it happened when he slept with his brother’s wife that he released his semen on the ground, so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.
9009 New Heart English Bible — Genesis 38:10
10 And what he did was evil in the sight of God, so he killed him also.
9010 New Heart English Bible — Genesis 38:11
11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah is grown up." For he thought, "I do not want him to die too, like his brothers." So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
9011 New Heart English Bible — Genesis 38:12
12 After some time, Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. And Judah finished mourning, and went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
9012 New Heart English Bible — Genesis 38:13
13 And Tamar was told, saying, "Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
9013 New Heart English Bible — Genesis 38:14
14 She took off her widow’s clothes and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.
9014 New Heart English Bible — Genesis 38:15
15 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.
9015 New Heart English Bible — Genesis 38:16
16 He went over to her by the road and said, "Please come, let me sleep with you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me for sleeping with you?"
9016 New Heart English Bible — Genesis 38:17
17 He said, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." She said, "Will you give me something as a guarantee until you send it?"
9017 New Heart English Bible — Genesis 38:18
18 He said, "What kind of guarantee should I give you?" She replied, "Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand." So he gave them to her, and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
9018 New Heart English Bible — Genesis 38:19
19 And she got up and left, and took off her veil, and put on her widow’s clothing.
9019 New Heart English Bible — Genesis 38:20
20 Judah sent the young goat by his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the guarantee back from the woman’s hand, but he did not find her.
9020 New Heart English Bible — Genesis 38:21
21 Then he asked the men of the place, saying, "Where is the prostitute that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here."