创世记 38
1 那时，犹大离开他弟兄下去，到一个亚杜兰人名叫希拉的家里去。
And it comes to pass, at that time, that Judah goes down from his brothers, and turns aside to a man, an Adullamite, whose name [is] Hirah;
2 犹大在那里看见一个迦南人名叫书亚的女儿，就娶她为妻，与她同房，
and Judah sees there the daughter of a man, a Canaanite, whose name [is] Shuah, and takes her, and goes in to her.
3 她就怀孕生了儿子，犹大给他起名叫珥。
And she conceives, and bears a son, and he calls his name Er;
4 她又怀孕生了儿子，母亲给他起名叫俄南。
and she conceives again, and bears a son, and calls his name Onan;
5 她复又生了儿子，给他起名叫示拉。她生示拉的时候，犹大正在基悉。
and she adds again, and bears a son, and calls his name Shelah; and he was in Chezib in her bearing him.
6 犹大为长子珥娶妻，名叫她玛。
And Judah takes a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name [is] Tamar;
7 犹大的长子珥在耶和华眼中看为恶，耶和华就叫他死了。
and Er, Judah’s firstborn, is evil in the eyes of YHWH, and YHWH puts him to death.
8 犹大对俄南说：“你当与你哥哥的妻子同房，向她尽你为弟的本分，为你哥哥生子立后。”
And Judah says to Onan, “Go in to the wife of your brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to your brother”;
9 俄南知道生子不归自己，所以同房的时候便遗在地，免得给他哥哥留后。
and Onan knows that the seed is not [reckoned] his; and it has come to pass, if he has gone in to his brother’s wife, that he has destroyed [it] to the earth, so as not to give seed to his brother;
10 俄南所做的在耶和华眼中看为恶，耶和华也就叫他死了。
and that which he has done is evil in the eyes of YHWH, and He puts him also to death.
11 犹大心里说：“恐怕示拉也死，像他两个哥哥一样”，就对他儿妇她玛说：“你去，在你父亲家里守寡，等我儿子示拉长大。”她玛就回去，住在她父亲家里。
And Judah says to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Abide [as] a widow at your father’s house, until my son Shelah grows up”; for he said, “Lest he die—even he—like his brothers”; and Tamar goes and dwells at her father’s house.
12 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。
And the days are multiplied, and the daughter of Shuah, Judah’s wife, dies; and Judah is comforted, and goes up to his sheep-shearers, he and Hirah his friend the Adullamite, to Timnath.
13 有人告诉她玛说：“你的公公上亭拿剪羊毛去了。”
And it is declared to Tamar, saying, “Behold, your husband’s father is going up to Timnath to shear his flock”;
14 她玛见示拉已经长大，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。
and she turns aside the garments of her widowhood from off her, and covers herself with a veil, and wraps herself up, and sits in the opening of Enayim, which [is] by the way to Timnath, for she has seen that Shelah has grown up, and she has not been given to him for a wife.
15 犹大看见她，以为是妓女，因为她蒙着脸。
And Judah sees her, and reckons her for a harlot, for she has covered her face,
16 犹大就转到她那里去，说：“来吧！让我与你同寝。”他原不知道是他的儿妇。她玛说：“你要与我同寝，把什么给我呢？”
and he turns aside to her by the way and says, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he has not known that she [is] his daughter-in-law; and she says, “What do you give to me, that you may come in to me?”
17 犹大说：“我从羊群里取一只山羊羔，打发人送来给你。”她玛说：“在未送以先，你愿意给我一个当头吗？”
And he says, “I send a kid of the goats from the flock.” And she says, “Do you give a pledge until you send [it]?”
18 他说：“我给你什么当头呢？”她玛说：“你的印、你的带子，和你手里的杖。”犹大就给了她，与她同寝，她就从犹大怀了孕。
And he says, “What [is] the pledge that I give to you?” And she says, “Your seal, and your ribbon, and your staff which [is] in your hand”; and he gives to her, and goes in to her, and she conceives to him;
19 她玛起来走了，除去帕子，仍旧穿上作寡妇的衣裳。
and she rises, and goes, and turns aside her veil from off her, and puts on the garments of her widowhood.
20 犹大托他朋友亚杜兰人送一只山羊羔去，要从那女人手里取回当头来，却找不着她，
And Judah sends the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the hand of the woman, and he has not found her.
21 就问那地方的人说：“伊拿印路旁的妓女在哪里？”他们说：“这里并没有妓女。”
And he asks the men of her place, saying, “Where [is] the separated one—she in Enayim, by the way?” And they say, “There has not been in this [place] a separated one.”
22 他回去见犹大说：“我没有找着她，并且那地方的人说：‘这里没有妓女。’”
And he turns back to Judah and says, “I have not found her; and the men of the place also have said, There has not been in this [place] a separated one,”
23 犹大说：“我把这山羊羔送去了，你竟找不着她。任凭她拿去吧，免得我们被羞辱。”
and Judah says, “Let her take to herself, lest we become despised; behold, I sent this kid, and you have not found her.”
24 约过了三个月，有人告诉犹大说：“你的儿妇她玛作了妓女，且因行淫有了身孕。”犹大说：“拉出她来，把她烧了！”
And it comes to pass about three months [after], that it is declared to Judah, saying, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has committed fornication; and also, behold, she has conceived by fornication”: and Judah says, “Bring her out—and she is burned.”
25 她玛被拉出来的时候便打发人去见她公公，对他说：“这些东西是谁的，我就是从谁怀的孕。请你认一认，这印和带子并杖都是谁的？”
She is brought out, and she has sent to her husband’s father, saying, “To a man whose these [are], I [am] pregnant”; and she says, “Please discern whose these [are]—the seal, and the ribbons, and the staff.”
26 犹大承认说：“她比我更有义，因为我没有将她给我的儿子示拉。”从此犹大不再与她同寝了。
And Judah discerns and says, “She has been more righteous than I, because that I did not give her to my son Shelah”; and he has not added to know her again.
27 她玛将要生产，不料她腹里是一对双生。
And it comes to pass in the time of her bearing, that behold, twins [are] in her womb;
28 到生产的时候，一个孩子伸出一只手来；收生婆拿红线拴在他手上，说：“这是头生的。”
and it comes to pass in her bearing, that [one] gives out a hand, and the midwife takes and binds on his hand a scarlet thread, saying, “This has come out first.”
29 随后这孩子把手收回去，他哥哥生出来了；收生婆说：“你为什么抢着来呢？”因此给他起名叫法勒斯。
And it comes to pass as he draws back his hand, that behold, his brother has come out, and she says, “What! You have broken forth—the breach [is] on you”; and he calls his name Perez;
30 后来，他兄弟那手上有红线的也生出来，就给他起名叫谢拉。
and afterward his brother has come out, on whose hand [is] the scarlet thread, and he calls his name Zerah.
