Genesis 38
1 About that time, Judah left his brothers and settled near a man named Hirah, an Adullamite.
那時猶大離開自己的兄弟，下到一個名叫希辣的阿杜藍人那裏住下了。
2 There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her as a wife and slept with her.
猶大在那裏看見了一個名叫叔亞的客納罕人的女兒，就娶了她，親近了她。
3 So she conceived and gave birth to a son, and Judah named him Er.
她遂懷孕，生了一個兒子，給他起名叫厄爾。
4 Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Onan.
她又懷孕，生了一個兒子，給他起名叫敖難。
5 Then she gave birth to another son and named him Shelah; it was at Chezib that she gave birth to him.
以後她又生了一個兒子，給他起名叫舍拉；生他的時候，猶大正在革齊布。
6 Now Judah acquired a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
猶大給自己的長子厄爾娶了妻子，名叫塔瑪爾。
7 But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; so the LORD put him to death.
猶大的長子厄爾行了上主所厭惡的事，上主就叫他死了。
8 Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
於是猶大對敖難說：「你去與你哥哥的妻子親近，與她盡你為弟弟的義務，給你哥哥立後。」
9 But Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brother’s wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.
敖難明知後裔不歸自己，所以當他與哥哥的妻子結合時，便將精液遺洩於地，免得給自己的哥哥立後。
10 What he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so He put Onan to death as well.
他作這事，為上主所厭惡，上主就叫他死了。
11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.
猶大於是對兒子塔瑪爾說：「你回到你父親家中去守寡，直到我兒子舍拉長大成人。」因為他心裏想：「恐怕他也如同他哥哥一樣死去。」塔瑪爾就回去，住在自己父親的家裏。
12 After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.
過了幾年，猶大的妻子叔亞的女兒死了。喪期過後，猶大便同自己的朋友阿杜藍人希辣，上提默納黑去剪羊毛。
13 When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
有人告訴塔瑪爾說：「你公公現正上提默納黑去剪羊毛。」
14 she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.
塔瑪爾遂脫去守寡的衣服，蒙上首帕，遮掩自己，坐在通往提默納黑大道去厄納殷的路口上；－－原來她見舍拉已經長大，還沒有娶她為妻。－－
15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.
猶大一看見她，以為她是個妓女，因為她遮蓋了自己的臉。
16 Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.
猶大便由路上轉到她面前，向她說：「來! 讓我與你親近! 」他並不知她就是自己的兒媳。她答說：「你給我什麼，好與我親近﹖」
17 “I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”
猶大答說：「由羊群中取一隻小公山羊送給你。」塔瑪爾說：「你未送來以前，你應給個抵押。」
18 “What pledge should I give you?” he asked. She answered, “Your seal and your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
猶大問說：「我該給你什麼作抵押﹖」她答說：「你的印章，你的繫印帶和你的棍杖。」猶大便交給了她，與她親近了；她於是由他懷了孕。
19 Then Tamar got up and departed. And she removed her veil and put on her widow’s garments again.
事後，她起來回家，除掉首帕，再穿上她守寡的衣服。
20 Now when Judah sent his friend Hirah the Adullamite with the young goat to collect the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.
猶大託自己的朋友阿杜藍人送了一隻小公山羊去，好由那女人手中取回抵押；他卻找不到她，
21 He asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.
便問當地人說：「那在厄納殷路旁的廟妓在那裏﹖」人答說：「這裏從來沒有廟妓。」
22 So Hirah returned to Judah and said, “I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, ‘No shrine prostitute has been here.’”
他回來對猶大說：「我找不著她，並且當地的人都說：這裏從來沒有廟妓。」
23 “Let her keep the items,” Judah replied. “Otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you could not find her.”
猶大遂說：「讓她留著罷! 免得我們被人嗤笑。我將小公山羊送了去，可是你沒有找著她。」
24 About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
大約過了三個月，有人告訴猶大說：「你的兒媳塔瑪爾與人通姦，而且因通姦有了身孕。猶大說：「把她拉出來燒死! 」
25 As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”
當她被拉出來時，她派人到她公公那裏說：「這些東西是誰的，我就是由誰懷了孕。」並且說：「請你仔細看看這些東西：印章、印帶和棍杖是誰的﹖」
26 Judah recognized the items and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.
猶大仔細一看，就說：「她比我更有理，因為我尚沒有將她嫁給我的兒子舍拉。」他從此以後，再沒有認識她。
27 When the time came for Tamar to give birth, there were twins in her womb.
到了她要生產的時候，腹中竟是一對雙胎。
28 And as she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it around his wrist. “This one came out first,” she announced.
她正生產時，一個胎兒伸出一手來，收生婆就拿了一根朱紅線繫在他手上說：「這個是先出生的。」
29 But when he pulled his hand back and his brother came out, she said, “You have broken out first!” So he was named Perez.
但是他一收回手去，他的兄弟就出生了；收生婆說：「你為自己開了個怎樣的裂口! 」遂給他起名叫培勒茲。
30 Then his brother came out with the scarlet thread around his wrist, and he was named Zerah.
以後，那手上繫有朱紅線的兄弟也出生了，遂給他起名叫則辣黑。
