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Now ^(F1)after a considerable time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and when ^(F2)the time of mourning was ended, Judah went up to his sheepshearers at ^(C1)Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

And Tamar was told, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to ^(C1)Timnah to shear his sheep."

So she ^(F1)removed her widow's garments and ^(C1)covered herself with a ^(F2)veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gateway of ^(F3)Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and ^(C2)she had not been given to him as a wife.

When Judah saw her, he assumed she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

So he turned aside to her by the road, and said, "^(F1)Here now, let me have relations with you"; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, "What will you give me, that you may have relations with me?"

He said, therefore, "I will send you a ^(F1)young goat from the flock." She then said, "Will you give a pledge until you send it?"

He said, "What pledge shall I give you?" And she said, "^(C1)Your seal and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." So he gave them to her and had relations with her, and she conceived by him.