Genesis 38:5-15

Young's Literal Translation

⁵ and she addeth again, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Shelah; and he was in Chezib in her bearing him.

⁶ And Judah taketh a wife for Er, his first-born, and her name [is] Tamar;

⁷ and Er, Judah's first-born, is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth put him to death.

⁸ And Judah saith to Onan, `Go in unto the wife of thy brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother;'

⁹ and Onan knoweth that the seed is not [reckoned] his; and it hath come to pass, if he hath gone in unto his brother's wife, that he hath destroyed [it] to the earth, so as not to give seed to his brother;

¹⁰ and that which he hath done is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and He putteth him also to death.

¹¹ And Judah saith to Tamar his daughter-in-law, `Abide a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son groweth up;' for he said, `Lest he die -- even he -- like his brethren;' and Tamar goeth and dwelleth at her father's house.

¹² And the days are multiplied, and the daughter of Shuah, Judah's wife, dieth; and Judah is comforted, and goeth up unto his sheep-shearers, he and Hirah his friend the Adullamite, to Timnath.

¹³ And it is declared to Tamar, saying, `Lo, thy husband's father is going up to Timnath to shear his flock;'

¹⁴ and she turneth aside the garments of her widowhood from off her, and covereth herself with a vail, and wrappeth herself up, and sitteth in the opening of Enayim, which [is] by the way to Timnath, for she hath seen that Shelah hath grown up, and she hath not been given to him for a wife.

¹⁵ And Judah seeth her, and reckoneth her for a harlot, for she hath covered her face,