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11001 World English Bible — Genesis 38:12
12 After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep-shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
11002 World English Bible — Genesis 38:13
13 It was told Tamar, saying, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
11003 World English Bible — Genesis 38:14
14 She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.
11004 World English Bible — Genesis 38:15
15 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
11005 World English Bible — Genesis 38:16
16 He turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come in to you:” for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”
11006 World English Bible — Genesis 38:17
17 He said, “I will send you a kid of the goats from the flock.” She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”
11007 World English Bible — Genesis 38:18
18 He said, “What pledge will I give you?” She said, “Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.
11008 World English Bible — Genesis 38:19
19 She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
11009 World English Bible — Genesis 38:20
20 Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her.
11010 World English Bible — Genesis 38:21
21 Then he asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?” They said, “There has been no prostitute here.”
11011 World English Bible — Genesis 38:22
22 He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’”
11012 World English Bible — Genesis 38:23
23 Judah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be put to shame. Behold, I sent this kid, and you haven’t found her.”
11013 World English Bible — Genesis 38:24
24 It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.”
11014 World English Bible — Genesis 38:25
25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “By the man, whose these are, I am with child.” She also said, “Please discern whose are these - the signet, and the cords, and the staff.”
11015 World English Bible — Genesis 38:26
26 Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew her again no more.
11016 World English Bible — Genesis 38:27
27 It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.
11017 World English Bible — Genesis 38:28
28 It happened, when she travailed, that one put out a hand: and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This came out first.”
11018 World English Bible — Genesis 38:29
29 It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?” Therefore his name was called Perez.
11019 World English Bible — Genesis 38:30
30 Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.
11020 World English Bible — Genesis 41:38
38 Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God?”