Genesis 38
1 It happened at that time that Judah moved away from his brothers and stayed with an Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
| ויהי בעת ההוא וירד יהודה מאת אחיו ויט עד איש עדלמי ושמו חירה׃ |
2 There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite whose name was Shua. And he married her and slept with her.
| וירא שם יהודה בת איש כנעני ושמו שוע ויקחה ויבא אליה׃ |
3 She conceived and gave birth to a son, and he named him Er.
| ותהר ותלד בן ויקרא את שמו ער׃ |
4 She conceived again and gave birth to a son, and she named him Onan.
| ותהר עוד ותלד בן ותקרא את שמו אונן׃ |
5 Then she gave birth to another son, and named him Shelah. And he was at Kezib when she gave birth to him.
| ותסף עוד ותלד בן ותקרא את שמו שלה והיה בכזיב בלדתה אתו׃ |
6 And Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
| ויקח יהודה אשה לער בכורו ושמה תמר׃ |
7 Now Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah, so God killed him.
| ויהי ער בכור יהודה רע בעיני יהוה וימתהו יהוה׃ |
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."
| ויאמר יהודה לאונן בא אל אשת אחיך ויבם אתה והקם זרע לאחיך׃ |
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.
| וידע אונן כי לא לו יהיה הזרע והיה אם בא אל אשת אחיו ושחת ארצה לבלתי נתן זרע לאחיו׃ |
10 And what he did was evil in the sight of God, so he killed him also.
| וירע בעיני יהוה אשר עשה וימת גם אתו׃ |
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.
| ויאמר יהודה לתמר כלתו שבי אלמנה בית אביך עד יגדל שלה בני כי אמר פן ימות גם הוא כאחיו ותלך תמר ותשב בית אביה׃ |
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.
| וירבו הימים ותמת בת שוע אשת יהודה וינחם יהודה ויעל על גזזי צאנו הוא וחירה רעהו העדלמי תמנתה׃ |
13 And Tamar was told, saying, "Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
| ויגד לתמר לאמר הנה חמיך עלה תמנתה לגז צאנו׃ |
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.
| ותסר בגדי אלמנותה מעליה ותכס בצעיף ותתעלף ותשב בפתח עינים אשר על דרך תמנתה כי ראתה כי גדל שלה והוא לא נתנה לו לאשה׃ |
15 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.
| ויראה יהודה ויחשבה לזונה כי כסתה פניה׃ |
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?"
| ויט אליה אל הדרך ויאמר הבה נא אבוא אליך כי לא ידע כי כלתו הוא ותאמר מה תתן לי כי תבוא אלי׃ |
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?"
| ויאמר אנכי אשלח גדי עזים מן הצאן ותאמר אם תתן ערבון עד שלחך׃ |
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.
| ויאמר מה הערבון אשר אתן לך ותאמר חתמך ופתילך ומטך אשר בידך ויתן לה ויבא אליה ותהר לו׃ |
19 And she got up and left, and took off her veil, and put on her widow's clothing.
| ותקם ותלך ותסר צעיפה מעליה ותלבש בגדי אלמנותה׃ |
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.
| וישלח יהודה את גדי העזים ביד רעהו העדלמי לקחת הערבון מיד האשה ולא מצאה׃ |
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."
| וישאל את אנשי מקמה לאמר איה הקדשה הוא בעינים על הדרך ויאמרו לא היתה בזה קדשה׃ |
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.'"
| וישב אל יהודה ויאמר לא מצאתיה וגם אנשי המקום אמרו לא היתה בזה קדשה׃ |
23 Judah said, "Let her keep the things, lest we be publicly shamed. Look, I sent this young goat, but you did not find her."
| ויאמר יהודה תקח לה פן נהיה לבוז הנה שלחתי הגדי הזה ואתה לא מצאתה׃ |
24 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."
| ויהי כמשלש חדשים ויגד ליהודה לאמר זנתה תמר כלתך וגם הנה הרה לזנונים ויאמר יהודה הוציאוה ותשרף׃ |
25 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."
| הוא מוצאת והיא שלחה אל חמיה לאמר לאיש אשר אלה לו אנכי הרה ותאמר הכר נא למי החתמת והפתילים והמטה האלה׃ |
26 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.
| ויכר יהודה ויאמר צדקה ממני כי על כן לא נתתיה לשלה בני ולא יסף עוד לדעתה׃ |
27 It happened when it was time for her to give birth, that look, there were twins in her womb.
| ויהי בעת לדתה והנה תאומים בבטנה׃ |
28 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."
| ויהי בלדתה ויתן יד ותקח המילדת ותקשר על ידו שני לאמר זה יצא ראשנה׃ |
29 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.
| ויהי כמשיב ידו והנה יצא אחיו ותאמר מה פרצת עליך פרץ ויקרא שמו פרץ׃ |
30 Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, so he was named Zerah.
| ואחר יצא אחיו אשר על ידו השני ויקרא שמו זרח׃ |
