¹⁵ “‘Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law.^(A) She is your son’s wife; do not have relations with her.^(B)

¹² “‘If a man has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law,^(A) both of them are to be put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads.

¹¹ In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor’s wife,^(A) another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law,^(B) and another violates his sister,^(C) his own father’s daughter.^(D)

²⁶ Judah recognized them and said, “She is more righteous than I,^(A) since I wouldn’t give her to my son Shelah.^(B)” And he did not sleep with her again.

¹⁸ He said, “What pledge should I give you?”

“Your seal^(A) and its cord, and the staff^(B) in your hand,” she answered. So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.^{(C) 19} After she left, she took off her veil and put on her widow’s clothes^(D) again.