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。
It happened at that time that Judah moved away from his brothers and stayed with an Adullamite, whose name was 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，
There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite whose name was Shua. And he married her and slept with her.
3 她就怀孕生了儿子，犹大给他起名叫珥。
She conceived and gave birth to a son, and he named him Er.
4 她又怀孕生了儿子，母亲给他起名叫俄南。
She conceived again and gave birth to a son, and she named him 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。
Then she gave birth to another son, and named him Shelah. And he was at Kezib when she gave birth to him.
6 犹大为长子珥娶妻，名叫她玛。
And Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was 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。
Now Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of YHWH, so God killed him.
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。”
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."
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。
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.
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 what he did was evil in the sight of God, so he killed him also.
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。
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.
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。
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.
13 有人告诉她玛说：“你的公公上亭拿剪羊毛去了。”
And Tamar was told, saying, "Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
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。
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.
15 犹大看见她，以为是妓女，因为她蒙着脸。
When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute because she had 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？”
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?"
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？”
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?"
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。
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.
19 她玛起来走了，除去帕子，仍旧穿上作寡妇的衣裳。
And she got up and left, and took off her veil, and put on her widow's clothing.
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，
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.
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。”
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."
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。’”
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.'"
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。”
Judah said, "Let her keep the things, lest we be publicly shamed. Look, I sent this young goat, but you did not find 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！”
Now it happened about three months later that Judah was told, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has turned to prostitution, and now, look, she is pregnant by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her out, and let her be 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？”
When she was brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man who owns these I am pregnant." She also said, "Please discern whose these are—the signet, and the cord, 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。
Then Judah recognized them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." He did not sleep with her again.
27 她玛将要生产，不料她腹里是一对双生。
It happened when it was time for her to give birth, that look, there were twins 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。”
As she was in labor, one put out a hand, and the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his hand, saying, "This one came 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。
It happened, as he drew back his hand, that look, his brother came out, and she said, "How did you break through?" So he was named 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。
Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, so he was named Zerah.
